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Choose your customers. Fire the ones that hurt your ability to deliver the right story to the others.

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Seth
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 16
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Clinton
Ontario
Gregory Gallant
Story
Business
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Others
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It is not virtuous in any way to put yourself down, or to punish yourself, because you do not feel you have lived up to your best behavior at any given time.
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