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The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful.
Steve Martin
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Steve Martin
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 14
Actor
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Film Producer
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Waco
Texas
Steve Glenn Martin
Stephen Glenn Martin
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She had destroyed whatever was between us by making a profound gaffe: She met me.
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