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'You're not free.'
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"You can't see your children for two weeks." (When I was going through my divorce.)
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Don't let MGM distribute a film you care about.
The day our daughter was born, or maybe fishing on the Colorado river with my wife and brother and his buddy Earl.
The distribution of Copying Beethoven in the US.
Couple of days ago, reading a thank-you note my parents had left after we celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in Wyoming.
A new administration here in the US.
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