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Hey, if I don't have a job, I don't know why I bother to get up. Any time the phone rings, I'm ready to go. What else am I going to do? See, I've never retired. I don't even know what it means.

Morgan Freeman

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Morgan Freeman
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 1
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