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Everybody dies, Sally. The thing is to die well.

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Tom Cruise
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: July 30
Actor
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Syracuse
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Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
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I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband.
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I've had such extremes in my life. From being this kind of wild kid, to one year studying to be a Franciscan priest at the seminary....I was very frustrated.
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