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You can choose your family sometimes. You can choose people, it could be a teacher, it could be a professor, it could be someone you work with that actually genuinely cares about you and wants you to succeed.

Nicolas Cage

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Nicolas Cage
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 7
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Long Beach
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Nicholas Kim Coppola
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God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction.
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I've always had a soft spot for comic books. I learned to read from them. The words in them were so interesting.
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I'm always going to judge somebody on their work ethic, and whether or not they made me feel something, or whether or not I felt they did a good job. To me, it's important to try to block anything personal out and look at the performance, in any field.
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I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.
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