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If you have an idea, immediately move on it. To start that fire and get it burning immediately...it's everything.
Barbara Corcoran
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Barbara Corcoran
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: March 10
Businessperson
Businesswoman
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Television Producer
Edgewater
New Jersey
Barbara Ann Corcoran
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