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I wouldn't be doing motherfu**ing films for almost three decades if every time I did something that someone didn't like I went in a fu**ing cocoon and just hid there and didn't make my art.

Spike Lee

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Spike Lee
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: March 20
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