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Where do I get my seriousness? You can't help but grow up fast when your parents get divorced. You see your mother go to get food stamps and she's making fifty dollars too much to get them, with four kids to support.
Tom Cruise
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Tom Cruise
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: July 30
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