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I'm not religious. I love what Clive James said the other day. James is a brilliant writer, but he keeps on writing poems on stuff. And he said, God doesn't have a leg to stand on.

Tom Courtenay

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Tom Courtenay
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: February 25
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Sir Thomas Daniel Courtenay
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