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A lot of times, the choice of the right song will save a scene. Or there will be a scene that's a little flat and you put in the right song and somehow it just comes alive.

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Alan Ball
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 13
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I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.
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