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No creative writer knows what is commercial and what isn't. You just write from your heart, you write from the deepest, creative urges in you, and you write from your soul, and you just either get lucky or not.
Mel Brooks
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Mel Brooks
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: June 28
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