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I just don't identify myself with a place. I just don't get it. Like, why am I cheering for this town? Towns are good and bad but they don't have principles, constitutions. You wouldn't go to war for your town.

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