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I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department I can only kind of do one thing at a time.

Eli Roth

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Eli Roth
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: April 18
Actor
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Newton
Massachusetts
Eli Raphael Roth
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Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.
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I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand. And actually, most of the bats in Massachusetts are used off the field instead of on the field, and we all had baseball bats in our cars in high school.
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