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It is true that in America I've become a national hero, but really I was a hopeless case, that was all.
Quentin Crisp
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Quentin Crisp
Age: 90 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 25
Died: 1999
Died: November 21
Actor
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Daniel Pratt
Denis Charles Pratt
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