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If you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow.
Robert Duvall
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Robert Duvall
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 5
Actor
Character Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
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Television Actor
San Diego
California
Robert Selden Duvall
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I love going to black churches, and I love some of these black preachers. The best preacher I ever saw in my life was a 93-year-old in a black church in Hamilton, Virginia. What a preacher!
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We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities.
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