The best advice I got from my aunt, the great singer Rosemary Clooney, and from my dad, who … - George Clooney

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I gotta feel alive, even if it kills me. Promise to always give you me, the real me.

George Clooney

The best advice I got from my aunt, the great singer Rosemary Clooney, and from my dad, who was a game show host and news anchor, was: don't wake up at seventy years old sighing over what you should have tried. Just do it, be willing to fail, and at least you gave it a shot. That's echoed for me all through the last few years.

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