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You just take your history and your education and your instincts and you put them all into a melting pot and out comes something.
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—When Michael D. Eisner left the Walt Disney Company in 2005 and set about remaking himself in new media, investing in a video-sharing Web site and starting a digital studio, some people in Hollywood snickered. Here we go, the whispers went, another fading star who doesn’t know when to leave the stage. But he may be the first to claim early success.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/03/business/media/03eisner.html?_r=1&oref=slogin