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The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.

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Abel Ferrara
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: July 18
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