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Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.

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Steve Martin
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 14
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Waco
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