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Don Johnson

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

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Don Johnson is saying that people working in the same industry will support you through personal problems like addiction, divorce, or mental health struggles. However, if you fail professionally, those same people will quickly distance themselves and lose interest in you.

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