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Balance sheets bore me. I suspect if figures had excited me I would have gone into the city and now be a lot wealthier.

Anne Robinson

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Anne Robinson
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: September 26
Autobiographer
Journalist
Television Presenter
Crosby
Merseyside
Anne Josephine Robinson
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