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Al Franken
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: May 21
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I do have a self-censor everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.
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Harvard's Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.
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I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.
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I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I've done. I've had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
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