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What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is in the world that wasn't there before.

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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
Actor
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Record Producer
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Singer-Songwriter
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The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers it's people from all over the world.
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I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.
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