Wolfgang Puck: Knowing Your Calling Is Step One. Following It Is Step Two [From the Archive]

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Sometimes, you know, when you don't have the happiest childhood, maybe you have to work harder to become successful and show to your Me was my stepfather who was totally crazy. I left my home and my father told me always. My stepfather said, Oh, you're good for nothing. You're gonna come back home anyway and I said, I'm never come home again. At the end of service the chef called me over and said, You're fired, you know, you ran out of potatoes. I said, I didn't know how much potatoes we need, I just started them months ago.

And then I said, I'm not going home. It was really crazy and so I said, I'm gonna kill myself, I'm not going home. Well I really believe if you have a passion for something, if you love theater, if you love radio, if like TV, If you like to paint or if you like to sing, whatever it is. I think you should work on that really. And if you're passionate about something, you will spend a lot of hours doing it. And then you actually can get pretty good.

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