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Well, it's wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.
Ben Kingsley
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Ben Kingsley
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: December 31
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What is chess, do you think? Those who play for fun or not at all dismiss it as a game. The ones who devote their lives to it for the most part insist that it's a science. It's neither. Bobby Fischer got underneath it like no one before and found at its center, art.
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