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I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.

Alfred Hitchcock

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Alfred Hitchcock
Age: 80 †
Born: 1899
Born: August 13
Died: 1980
Died: April 29
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Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
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I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.
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The picture's over. Now I have to go and put it on film.
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