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Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.

Steve Earle

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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
Actor
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Fort Monroe National Monument
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