I've met some of the Hollywood entertainment crowd, and they have a popular saying, one that is crude but tells it all in a single sentence. The saying is, 'You've got it made when you've got "fuck-you" money.' That's it in a nutshell. When you've got enough money to say, 'Fuck you, buster,' to any bastard on earth, then and only then are you your own man.

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