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If we'd had another carefree 70s, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.

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Randy Newman
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 28
Composer
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Randall Stuart Newman
Randall S. Newman
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