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There's that saying, I don't know art, but I know what I like. The inverse is kind of true. I know art, but I don't know what I like. You get so immersed in it that nothing appeals to you.

Norm MacDonald

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Norm MacDonald
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 17
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