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Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.

Stephen King

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Stephen King
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: September 21
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I don't want to sound like an ad, a public service ad on TV, but the fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don't, then you've got, the Army, Iraq, I don't know, something like that. It's, it's not as bright. So, that's my little commercial for that.
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