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Good things come to those who wait
January 13th, 2010
Excerpt from Madison Magazine December 2009
JK Rowling
JK has sold more than 400 million copies worldwide, yet single mother Joanne Kathleen Rowling almost gave up on her first novel Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone when it was rejected by around a dozen publishers before British publishing house Bloomsbury paid just £2500 (around $4500) for the manuscript. The Harry Potter series has since been translated into 67 languages and Rowling’s seventh instalment, Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, sold 11 million copies in its first 24 hours.
Martin Scorsese
It took 26 years, six best director and two best screenplay nominations before the American film director took the Oscar for best director in 2007 for his film The Departed. He received the award to a standing ovation before saying: “Could you double-check the envelope?”
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One busker’s story
November 8th, 2009
Many of you have met us somewhere along way busking outside a train station, in a mall, outside of a church and we found this story about a very talented violinist and wanted to share it with you:
Washington, DC Metro Station on a cold January morning in 2007. The man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time approx. 2 thousand people went through the station, most of them on their way to work. After 3 minutes a middle aged man noticed there was a musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried to meet his schedule.
4 minutes later:
the violinist received his first dollar: a woman threw the money in the hat and, without stopping, continued to walk.
6 minutes:
A young man leaned against the wall to listen to him, then looked at his watch and started to walk again.
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