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I had no natural gift to be anything - not an athlete, not an actor, not a writer, not a director, a painter of garden porches - not anything. So I've worked really hard, because nothing ever came easily to me.
Paul Newman
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Paul Newman
Age: 83 †
Born: 1925
Born: January 26
Died: 2008
Died: September 26
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