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As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising we free ourselves from the tyranny of consumer culture.
Steven Pressfield
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Steven Pressfield
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 1
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