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It's important to have a life and spend time outside of those things [music and politics], in order to appreciate what you've achieved as far as just spending time with people you love, and doing things like painting.

Eddie Vedder

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Eddie Vedder
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: December 23
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Eddie Jerome Vedder
Edward Louis Severson III
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