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My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.

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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
Dramaturge
Film Director
Journalist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Translator
Writer
Zlin
Sir Tom Stoppard
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Prepared
Answers
Waiting
Whole
Life

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