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If you're with an agent and they don't like where your work is going - the pressure behind it is the pressure of the hierarchy which says I know what I am talking about, which I find offensive.

Vanessa Veselka

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Vanessa Veselka
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: March 14
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