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Theater for me is about enduring human truth. Special effects can be part of that, but when they obscure what is the reason we come to theater - to see reflections of our confounded humanity - the theater has lost its way.

Neil Patrick Harris

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Neil Patrick Harris
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 15
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