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" I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived. "
Meryl Streep
Enough
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Good Life
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" People at agencies and studios, including the parent boards, might look around the table at the decision-making level and feel something is wrong if half their participants are not women. Because our tastes are different, what we value is different. Not better, different. "
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" It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead. "
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