Neil Gaiman's Commencement Keynote: Make Good Art
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John Lee Dumas
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🗓️ 24 May 2019
⏱️ 17 minutes
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This speech was delivered as the keynote address for the May 17, 2012 commencement ceremony at The University of the Arts.
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| 0:00.0 | What's Shaken Fire Nation? |
| 0:04.0 | JLD here with a keynote address from Neil Gaiman called Make Good Art. |
| 0:11.6 | The speech was delivered as the keynote address for the May 17, 2012 Commissime Ceremony |
| 0:17.5 | at the University of the Arts. |
| 0:20.8 | I hope you enjoy. |
| 0:22.0 | He talks all about how and why creativity and making mistakes are all in one all intertwined |
| 0:28.4 | and how the world is changing in a powerful way. |
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| 0:52.9 | R.I. Fire Nation, let's dive into Neil Gaiman's keynote address, Make Good Art. |
| 0:59.4 | I never really expected to find myself giving advice to people graduating from an establishment |
| 1:03.5 | of higher education. |
| 1:05.2 | I never graduated from any such establishment. |
| 1:08.0 | I never even started at one. |
| 1:10.0 | I escaped from school as soon as I could when the prospect of four more years of enforced |
| 1:14.9 | learning before I become the writer I wanted to be was stifling. |
| 1:18.7 | I got out into the world. |
| 1:20.4 | I wrote and I became a better writer than more I wrote and I wrote some more and nobody |
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