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You discover a lot of things on your feet and if you don't have any rehearsal, then anything that happens on the screen is by accident.

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Paul Newman
Age: 83 †
Born: 1925
Born: January 26
Died: 2008
Died: September 26
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Paul Leonard Newman
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