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I am not a dark person and I don't consider myself dark.

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Tim Burton
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 25
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I remember being forced to go to Sunday school for a number of years, even though my parents were not religious. No one was really religious it was just the framework. There was no passion for it. No passion for anything. Just a quiet, kind of floaty, kind of semi-oppressive, blank palette that youre living in.
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Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?
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