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I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.

Rufus Wainwright

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Rufus Wainwright
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 22
Composer
Musician
Pianist
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Singer-Songwriter
Rhinebeck (village)
New York
Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright
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