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If you're a painter and you want people to know who you are and recognize your work, you've got to build some long-term value.
Steven Soderbergh
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Steven Soderbergh
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: January 14
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I'm not going to spend two years of my life on something that I'm not excited about.
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What's great about things like Kickstarter is that it enables me, finally, and without any bad feeling at all, when people come up to me now saying, I want to do this. I can just go, There are no excuses anymore.
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