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I believe that this life is all we have. I don't believe in anything after this, so I think the choices we make here are so important and the relationships we choose are crucial, especially in that time when we are developing ourselves and we're becoming adults.

Joel Kinnaman

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Joel Kinnaman
Age: 44
Born: 1979
Born: November 25
Actor
Film Actor
Television Actor
Sthlm
Charles Joel Nordström
Charles Joel Nordström Kinnaman
Joel Nordström
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Swedes are a really humble and shy people in many ways, but I think it's pretty much the same as in the U.S. Little girls want to take photographs with me at lunch.
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We're all a big hippie family so I got five sisters and a bunch of different mothers. Not really, but my sisters' mothers are all good friends with my mother. We're a big family, 25 people.
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