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...ever receive negative feedback from editors before your career took off? -Claudia Nelson, Hydesville, CA I can't say negative, but I certainly had plenty of rejections. It is very rare that you sell the first book right away...
...your pen in the inkwell, the saying goes. Don't fish off the company pier, says another. The common wisdom is that office romance--usually furtive, often forbidden--can be career suicide. But these thoughtful authors make a persuasive case that it's smart for today's single co-workers to mix: "We think office romance has gotten a bad rap," Losee and Olen write. "We think its time has come. In fact, the greatest pool of potential mates is not online, not in a bar, and not on a blind date. It's in the office...
...knack for charming his way out of trouble. It was at a party in the basement of a neighborhood DJ, "Jazzy" Jeff Townes, that Smith's magnetism first paid off professionally. He won over Townes and the DJ's manager, James Lassiter, who has steered Smith's career for the past 22 years and who runs Overbrook Entertainment, the production company named for the high school they attended. Before Smith finished his senior year, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince released their first album, and Smith decided to forgo college for show business. The duo's parent-friendly...
...career axiom that Smith figured out early on still stymies plenty of big-name American actors. "Movie stars are made with worldwide box office," Smith says. "You put a movie out in the U.S., and let's say it breaks even. Then the studio needs you to go around the world and get profit. Being able to get $30 mil in England, 37 in Japan, 15 in Germany is what makes the studio support your movies differently than they support other actors' movies." He has built his global audience systematically: with each film, Smith introduces himself to a new people...
...Amboise traced his own transformation from a seven-year-old junior lookout for petty street crime in his childhood neighborhood of Washington Heights into a company member of New York City Ballet by age 15 and principal dancer there for over three decades. He has enjoyed a second career directing the National Dance Institute (NDI), a non-profit arts education organization he founded in 1976.In an effort to keep her son off the streets, d’Amboise’s mother had him tag along to his sister’s weekly ballet classes with a teacher named Madame...