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If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.
Albert Brooks
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Albert Brooks
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 22
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Beverly Hills
California
Albert Lawrence Brooks
Albert Lawrence Einstein
A. Brooks
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