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I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.
Steve Coogan
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Steve Coogan
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: October 14
Actor
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Film Producer
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Middleton
Greater Manchester
Stephen John Coogan
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When it comes to morality, I'd rather have an unfaithful president like Bill Clinton, who tried to reform welfare, than a faithful George Bush who propagated an illegal war on the rest of the world. So that is where my morality stands.
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I like the British public. There is something in this country called tall poppy syndrome. You're good but you're not that good, pal, OK? The natural state of our nation is slightly miserable, and probably the healthier for it. In America you don't get a key down the side of your Bentley.
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