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If you know what you're looking for, that's all you'll get - what's previously known. But when you're open to what's possible, you get something new - that's creativity.

Alan Alda

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Alan Alda
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: January 28
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Manhattan borough
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Alphonso Joseph D’Abruzzo
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