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We all question our sanity. Everyone has had an experience of loss of control of something.
John Carpenter
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John Carpenter
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 16
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We've got the prettiest girls in the world here in Los Angeles and there's a great music scene. And I learned what I learned about cinema here in Los Angeles so it's always been really important to me as a city to live in and I love making movies about it.
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