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I'm really influenced by Southern novelists, not many movie people. More like John Faulkner, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O'Connor, John Steinbeck, and people like that.

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Billy Bob Thornton
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: August 4
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