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I've worked in television long enough to know that when you stop enjoying that type of thing you go home and do something else.

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Mark Haddon
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 28
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As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the time. I was sent away to this public school in the middle of nowhere, and I think we managed to completely miss out on normal youth culture.
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