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I think a neurotic learns from their mistakes. A psychotic does not.

Emma Forrest

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Emma Forrest
Age: 47
Born: 1976
Born: December 26
Film Director
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
London
England
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Psychotic
Learns
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Mistakes
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