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If anybody asks me what I attribute the longevity of my career to, then I say it's because I was never satisfied with being a cowboy in the plains of Spain and later I was never satisfied with just playing a detective in San Francisco, and constantly just pushing the envelope.

Clint Eastwood

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Clint Eastwood
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: May 31
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