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It's hard to have a film and television career and do music work at the same time.
Denis Leary
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Denis Leary
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 18
Actor
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Film Producer
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Television Actor
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Worcester
Massachusetts
Denis Colin Leary
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Loud, stupid and overeating will suffice as long as we also have the funny, the fierce and the intellectual
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My father left Ireland because he did not want to muck horse manure for the rest of his life, and he wanted to come to New York.
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