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Mean Streets dealt with the American Dream, according to which everybody thinks they can get rich quick, and if they can't do it by legal means then they'll do it by illegal ones.
Martin Scorsese
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Martin Scorsese
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 17
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