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I was trundling around with my inadequacies, and inner pain and loneliness. I yearned, desperately, to be something. I yearned to get out from where I was ... some deep discontent within myself, actually some deep dislike of myself.

Anthony Hopkins

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Anthony Hopkins
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: December 31
Actor
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Port Talbot
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