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You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

Alan Alda

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Alan Alda
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: January 28
Actor
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Film Director
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Manhattan borough
New York City
Alphonso Joseph D’Abruzzo
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