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Brian Smith - A Picture’s Worth](http://blog.photoshelter.com/corp/2009/06/the-business-of-editorial-phot.html):

If you’re waiting to “raise your game” until you get your dream gig, you’ll never get it. I spent the first decade of my career and a newspaper photographer, and I put the same effort into my assignments for newspaper as I did on the freelance shoots for Rolling Stone.