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If you take a child from South Africa and you put them in Boston, they're going to speak with a Boston accent. And so, that's a way to see the world as everybody is equal, not as a result of politics, but as human beings.

Michel Gondry

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Michel Gondry
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 8
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