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If you're a writer you know that the stories don't come to you, you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.

Tom Waits

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Tom Waits
Age: 74
Born: 1949
Born: December 7
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You're my North Star when I'm lost and feeling blue.
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