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Greatness isn't something you should always be chasing. There's greatness within all of us, and I think that's what we forget.

Brad Meltzer

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Brad Meltzer
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: April 1
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Thinking
Chasing
Greatness
Within
Forget
Something
Always
Think

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