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Make time in your life to listen to your own voice. Do not let it get drowned out by others. Your voice is yours and yours alone. Stay in touch with it and use it.

Maria Shriver

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Maria Shriver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: November 6
Actor
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Journalist
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Chicago
Illinois
Maria Owings Shriver
Maria Shriver Schwarzenegger
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