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I never studied dance, but if you look at 'Wild At Heart,' my mother saw that movie and said, 'You are a dancer. Look at how you're moving: all that strange energy is like modern dance.'

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Nicolas Cage
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 7
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