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I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

Alan Rickman

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Alan Rickman
Age: 69 †
Born: 1946
Born: February 21
Died: 2016
Died: January 14
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Hammersmith
London
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman
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A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.
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I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.
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