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We have to have a version of our own story that we keep telling ourselves that allows us to get up in the morning. this version of yourself is what you sell to yourself. i think it necessarily includes ... not looking at certain things. everybody's got some blind spot.
-Steven Soderbergh
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We have to have a version of our own story that we keep telling ourselves that allows us to get up in the morning. this version of yourself is what you sell to yourself. i think it necessarily includes ... not looking at certain things. everybody's got some blind spot.
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