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I feel like Ive been engaged to the British Empire since 1980 and tonight you have given me the ring knighthood.

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Steven Spielberg
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 18
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From a very young age, my parents taught me the most important lesson of my whole life: They taught me how to listen. They taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.
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