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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.

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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
Ridiculousness
Embrace
Begin
Sense
Great

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