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Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

Rod Serling

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Rod Serling
Age: 50 †
Born: 1924
Born: December 25
Died: 1975
Died: June 28
Film Producer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Syracuse
New York
Rodman Edward Serling
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Earth
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Thing
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Scary
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Putting

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