There were so many lean years. A lot of lean years.
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To a large degree, those early lean days were self-imposed.
For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.
The Lean Startup has evolved into a movement that is having a significant impact on how companies are built, funded and scaled.
I used to think that in order to be lean, I had to under-eat.
In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.
That's like one of the things - you know, being a writer, it's not just like they're constantly like giving you jobs and shows. There was some lean years, man, and - well, a lean year and a half. 'Woe is me.' Right?
You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.
There were some super-lean years, yeah. I'm six feet four. And I entered into this period all of a sudden when I was too big to play a kid and I was too young to play an adult. Like, I couldn't play the lawyer, but I couldn't play the high school kid anymore.
The '90s were a time of building for me. Building a life that was sober, drained of harmful, wasteful excess and manufacturing in its place a family of my own.
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