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America always seemed to me this foreign land that I imagined I could escape to if I needed to get away - and I think that came both from the fact that I was born there and from watching so many American movies when I was a kid. I was brought up on American films.

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Andrew Garfield
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: August 20
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