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Happiness is in the doing not in getting what you want.

Ethan Hawke

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Ethan Hawke
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: November 6
Actor
Comics Writer
Film Actor
Film Director
Novelist
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Theatrical Director
Writer
Austin
Texas
Ethan Green Hawke
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