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The lower you start, the more opportunities you have.
Neil Gaiman
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Neil Gaiman
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 10
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Neil Richard Gaiman
Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman
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Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.
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I love learning. I tend to stop doing things once I get good at them, and to try something else I'm not as good at, leaving a bunch of fans going, But he was really good at that. Why isn't he still doing it?
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If you don't know it's impossible it's easier to do.
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