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It created in me a yearning for all that is wide and open and expansive. Something that will never allow me to fit in in my own country, with its narrow towns and narrow roads and narrow kindnesses and narrow reprimands.

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Anthony Hopkins
Age: 86
Born: 1937
Born: December 31
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Israel means war and destruction and we Americans are behind this war and I am ashamed of being American.
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