Scott Hamilton - “My job was to make sure that my pain...”

“My job was to make sure that my pain was not visible to the audience. They came to escape their troubles, not to be drawn into my own pain.”

Scott Hamilton The Great Eight: How to Be Happy Even When You Have Every Reason to Be Miserable

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