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It makes me angry when people insist that I have a responsibility to do what they think I should do.
Pete Townshend
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Pete Townshend
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: May 19
Banjoist
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Screenwriter
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London
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Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend
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