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Reality doesn't have any preconceived ideas. You've got to learn how to smoke the cigarette, not act smoking the cigarette. You need to drink the drink, not act drinking the drink. You've got to do things and not show them.

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James Dean
Age: 24 †
Born: 1931
Born: February 8
Died: 1955
Died: September 30
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