Nobody else is paying as much attention to your failures as you are. You're the only ones who are obsessed with the importance of your own life. To everyone else, it's just a blip on the radar screen.
Jerry Zucker
University of Wisconsin-Madison Commencement 2003, 2003
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Zucker called this 'Travolta's Law.' He and his brother David and their partner Jim Abrahams were eating pie at Rumpelmeyer's Coffee Shop in New York the day after their third movie, Top Secret, opened to terrible reviews and was bombing at the box office. They were deep into serious moping and self-flagellation when John Travolta walked in. They poured out their hearts about their humiliating failure. Travolta just smiled and delivered this liberating truth — then asked if they were going to finish their pie. From that day on, Zucker said, whenever he failed big, he just went out for a piece of apple pie and moved on. And he always saved a slice for Travolta, who amazingly showed up more often than not to eat it.
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