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Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing.

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Peter Greenaway
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 5
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