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The incentive for business is not, and cannot, be anything other than the root incentive for all business: they must profit.

Edward Norton

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Edward Norton
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 18
Actor
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Boston
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Edward Harrison Norton
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Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.
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When I think of my background, if I was privileged on any level, it was in terms of the kind of exposure to experience and bohe-mian cultural influence that my parents and my uncles and my grandfather gave me. On both sides I come from an extremely eccentric, artsy, intellectually intense, activist family.
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