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You're being mean to someone who's helping you. What is that? Everyone knows who the assholes are, and I avoid them.

Steven Soderbergh

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Steven Soderbergh
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: January 14
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Atlanta
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Steven Andrew Soderbergh
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