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Genius is becoming something you were all along.

David Whyte

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David Whyte
Age: 58
Born: 1965
Born: September 21
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Poet
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Marrickville
New South Wales
Australia
Genius
Along
Becoming
Something

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