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I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again.

Ali MacGraw

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Ali MacGraw
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 1
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Pound Ridge
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Elizabeth Alice MacGraw
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