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It Is Only By Going Through A Volume Of Work That... Your Work Will Be As Good As Your Ambitions. And I Took Longer To Figure Out How To Do This Than Anyone I've Ever Met. It's Gonna Take Awhile. It's Normal To Take Awhile. You've Just Gotta Fight Your Way Through.

-Ira Glass

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It Is Only By Going Through A

Ira Glass

It Is Only By Going Through A Volume Of Work That... Your Work Will Be As Good As Your Ambitions. And I Took Longer To Figure Out How To Do This Than Anyone I've Ever Met. It's Gonna Take Awhile. It's Normal To Take Awhile. You've Just Gotta Fight Your Way Through.

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