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You can't make something beautiful by trying to make something beautiful. Something becomes beautiful in the process of trying to be something else.
Steve Martin
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Steve Martin
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 14
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Banjoist
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Film Producer
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Waco
Texas
Steve Glenn Martin
Stephen Glenn Martin
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