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Even in my dreams, I’m an idiot who knows he’s about to wake up to reality.

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Tom Cruise
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: July 30
Actor
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Director
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Film Director
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Syracuse
New York
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
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