Tag: Failure

Get up! Get up!

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again. Dutch Post-Impressionist painter, Vincent van Gogh, was born on this day in 1853 (died 1890). Roughly translated “I was just scratching my ear!” Maybe that’s in the made for TV version. Look up …

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All fall down

  “The best advice I can give you about falling is to never land.” American comedian, actor, and screenwriter, Chevy Chase was born on this day in 1943. I once had a director ask me if I could fall on stage. I replied “once,” and asked her which performance she’d like me to do it …

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