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Ocean is more about ... powerlessness and hopelessness. When we're very small we can't actually do anything - we have no say in what happens, we have no money or resources, we sometimes have no idea what's going on.

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Neil Gaiman
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 10
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