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How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. How do you get away from it? Improvise.

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Mark Steyn
Age: 64
Born: 1959
Born: December 8
Film Critic
Journalist
Music Critic
Pundit
Writer
City of Toronto
Carnegie
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