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I am interested in details. If you go into anything far enough, you get into the details of it, and people turn out to be interested in what makes things work.

Andy Rooney

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Andy Rooney
Age: 92 †
Born: 1919
Born: January 14
Died: 2011
Died: November 4
Journalist
Screenwriter
War Correspondent
Writer
Albany
New York
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