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" Your celebrity capital rises and falls in any given year. And when you have some - temporarily, usually - you try to use it for some good. "

Steven Van Zandt

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" I'm very, very proud to have been at what I feel are two of the pivotal moments in this whole new Golden Era of television - one being 'The Sopranos' with HBO and now with Netflix expanding that whole HBO concept to the world and making it more of a global thing. It's been wonderful to witness that from those two vantage points. "

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