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Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots.

Donald Miller

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Donald Miller
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
Author
Screenwriter
Writer
Pearland
Texas
Without
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Amateurs
Robots
Within
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