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If I don’t talk about my religion, if I say I’m not discussing it or different humanitarian things I’m working on, they’re like, “He’s avoiding it.” If I do talk about it, it becomes, “Oh, he’s proselytizing.”
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Tom Cruise
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: July 30
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Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
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