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There is no client as scary as an innocent man.
Michael Connelly
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Michael Connelly
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 21
Actor
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Philadelphia
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Michael Joseph Connelly
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You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.
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