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All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.

Edward Norton

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Edward Norton
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: August 18
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Boston
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Edward Harrison Norton
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