Ali Drake:
CLASS OF 2003
Topsail High SchoolClass of 2003
Hampstead, NC
Ali's Story
Ali is from Hampstead, North Carolina. Ali's schools include Topsail High School. Ali works(ed) at At&t.
Music Ali likes includes Piano Piano, Fiona Apple, Jedi Mind Tricks. Books Ali likes include Hunger Games Official Page, The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns. Movies Ali likes include Harold & Maude, The Outsiders, SWEENEY TODD. TV shows Ali likes include Louie, Gypsy (TV 1993), Weeds.
One of Ali's favorite quotes is:"“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through t...Expand for more
his. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and 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
"The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off."
"A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after."
-Gloria Steinem
This is how it works
You're young until you're not
You love until you don't
You try until you can't
You laugh until you cry
You cry until you laugh
And everyone must breathe
Until their dying breath
-Regina Spektor".
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