{"id":28750,"date":"2015-05-27T11:32:37","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T15:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=28750"},"modified":"2015-05-27T14:06:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T18:06:01","slug":"coffee-break-robert-de-niro-speech-to-arts-students-youre-fked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2015\/05\/27\/coffee-break-robert-de-niro-speech-to-arts-students-youre-fked\/","title":{"rendered":"COFFEE BREAK | Robert De Niro to Arts Students: \u201cYou\u2019re F**ked\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lN4v_JK_qbY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Last week, Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro took the podium to give a 15-minute speech to the graduates of New York University&#8217;s Tisch School of the Arts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re fucked\u201d, he said. \u201cThink about that. The graduates from the college of nursing: they all have jobs. The graduates from the college of dentistry: fully employed [\u2026] Each one will get a job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Common sense dictates you will be much better off with a field\u00a0that leads to a career that can offer better financial security. &#8220;But,&#8221; Di Niro said, &#8220;When it comes to the arts, passion should always trump common sense. You weren\u2019t just following dreams; you\u2019re reaching for your destiny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>De Niro goes on to press the importance of collaboration and maintaining close ties with the artists community. He tells then to learn to take rejection in stride, and try not to take it personally.<\/p>\n<p>All good advice, not just for arts graduates, but for everyone.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>#LUDWIGVAN<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Want more updates on Toronto-centric classical music news and review\u00a0before anyone else finds out? Get our exclusive newsletter\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LudwigVanToronto\/app_100265896690345\">here<\/a><\/em><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<\/span>and follow us on\u00a0<\/em><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LudwigVanToronto?fref=ts\">Facebook<\/a><\/span> for all the latest.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro has some advice for the 2015 graduating class of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":28753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[118,4932],"tags":[5467,5468],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/05\/NeNiro.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-7tI","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28750"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28767,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28750\/revisions\/28767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28750"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=28750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}