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Keep your focus on what YOU want to do - not what anyone else wants or is doing. You lose time watching others succeed.

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Kevin Smith
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 2
Actor
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Red Bank
New Jersey
Kevin Patrick Smith
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