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You can't turn up at college in stilettos and say you're gonna be a filmmaker. In the college, they were teaching me avant-garde filmmaking, where I had to make films that were, like, an hour long about nothing. I just refused to do it.
M.I.A.
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M.I.A.
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 18
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Mathangi Arulpragasam
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