"And he wasn't into selling door to door

And he worked like the devil to be more"

I actually "sold" vacuums at one time. The word is in quotations because I never sold a single one. I just wasn't into it. Even though I tried to pattern myself after the slick suited guy who recruited me, there was not a chance that I could pass myself off as a salesman.

Each year in elementary school all of us were commanded to go out and sell magazines. In high school it was chocolate candy. I invariably held the record for the least sales. I would have given anything I owned to have gotten out of having to ring some stranger's doorbell in order to try to sell them something I knew damned well that they hadn't asked for.

It has always been a suspicion of mine that the majority of people in the performing arts usually lack whatever it takes to self-promote. I could be wrong. But it appears to me that if that gene or whatever were present in many of us, we would have more of the limelight. Oh, sure, there are exceptions like Jaquelyn Smith and Madonna. But I think people like them represent a very small portion of the whole.