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I think many of the boundaries that convention has placed upon us are arbitrary, so we can fiddle with them if we fancy. Gravity's hard to dispute, and breathing, but a lot of things we instinctively obey are a lot of old tosh.

Russell Brand

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Russell Brand
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: June 4
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