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If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.

Peter McWilliams

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Peter McWilliams
Age: 50 †
Born: 1949
Born: August 5
Died: 2000
Died: June 11
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Film Director
Poet
Michigan
United States
Peter A. McWilliams
Peter mcwilliams
Peter Alexander McWilliams
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