"We live in a funny time. If you don't go corporate, you can't compete. You're relegated as irrelevant. People used to admire that.“


-Ethan Hawke

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We live in a funny time. If you don't go corporate, you can't compete. You're relegated as irrelevant. People used to admire that.

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