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art is exposure. And until you've developed a degree of maturity to handle that knowledge, you are revealing what other people keep hidden.

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Shelley Winters
Age: 85 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 18
Died: 2006
Died: January 14
Actor
Actress
Autobiographer
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Writer
East St. Louis
Illinois
Shirley Schrift
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Handle
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Knowledge
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