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We had access to too much equipment, too much money, and little by little we went insane.
Francis Ford Coppola
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Francis Ford Coppola
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: April 7
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I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns were mean.
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