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That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do.

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Karl Urban
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: August 7
Actor
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Wellington
New Zealand
Karl-Heinz Urban
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I am in awe, in admiration of the man who Gaius Julius Caesar was. I don't actually do him as the man himself. He is maybe a distant relative. It's hard to approach the real man because he is such an awesome icon.
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