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I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.

Ian Somerhalder

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Ian Somerhalder
Age: 45
Born: 1978
Born: December 8
Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
Model
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Covington
Louisiana
Ian Joseph Somerhalder
Fascinated
Wanted
Play
Always
Resonates
Mystique
Orleans
Mythology
Vampire

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The sanctuary would be the epicenter for the foundation. We'll have think tanks there. It's going to be a really, really amazing place. As an educational home base, we will also focus on the development of sustainable agriculture initiative. It's a huge project but one I am exceptionally passionate about.
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I love the media, I live with the media.
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My mom spent every dollar she ever had on getting me modeling/acting classes when I was a kid. I'm really grateful for that foresight. She's brilliant, kind, and so loving as a mother. I was told a million times in a day that she loved me.
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I was pretty shocked to learn that as many as 30,000 elephants are being killed every year to fuel the ivory trade, despite an international ban since 1989, and that 60% of forest elephants have already been wiped out. At this rate, experts say populations will become extinct in the next decade. No one needs ivory.
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Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat of the United States of America, to be honest with you. That is why seeing the habitat destroyed is so short-sighted by us.
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True statement: Live it, love it, leave the wold better off than when you got here.
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