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You can drive 1,000 miles across America and find yourself, whereas if you drive a few miles from Slough you're in London anyway, or you hit Wales and you're in another country! Also, wherever you are in England it's still raining.

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Ricky Gervais
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: June 25
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