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About California... I thought it was an appalling place. Then I went through a period of being amused by it. Now it's sort of both. Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

Alex Kingston

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Alex Kingston
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: March 11
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Alexandra Elizabeth Kingston
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