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I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.

Naomi Watts

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Naomi Watts
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 28
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Naomi Ellen Watts
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