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Help me to withstand your beauty as it stands out of reach. Give me the capacity to forget ever having felt your touch.

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.
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I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway.
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