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We children learned responsibility automatically.

James Earl Jones

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James Earl Jones
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 17
Actor
Dub Actor
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Arkabutla
Mississippi
Automatically
Learned
Responsibility
Children

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