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    I'll Take Care of It

    Rob Long reveals the secret to being a powerful and effective agent: listening to clients on the phone, playing Candy Crush, and doing nothing.

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    By Rob Long • Jun 12, 2013 • 3m Listen

    The worst thing you can tell anyone who nevertheless probably needs to hear it is, calm down. Which is a problem in the entertainment industry, of course, because it's filled with volatile people some of whom have made millions of dollars from precisely the ability to totally lose it and not care. But even those of us in the quieter sectors of the business have been known to get emotional about stuff...

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