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I've seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I've seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit

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Ron Silver
Age: 62 †
Born: 1946
Born: July 2
Died: 2009
Died: March 15
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