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When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television.
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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I was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.
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I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
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In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales.
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I'm very proud of my flops, as much as of my successes.
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