I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it.

我不是名人，我是传奇。

I'm mentioning all this -- I'm mentioning all this because I think this is not merely a personal problem; you may think I'm wrong in this, but I think we live in an age when our lives are regularly punctuated by career crises, by moments when what we thought we knew -- about our lives, about our careers -- comes into contact with a threatening sort of reality.

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.