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I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema.

Jim Jarmusch

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Jim Jarmusch
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: January 22
Actor
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Cuyahoga Falls
Ohio
James Roberto Jim Jarmusch
James Roberto Jarmusch
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