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When you get the call from Quentin Tarantino, it's the call of a lifetime. You don't allow yourself to be vulnerable enough or to be fool enough to expect that phone call to happen, in reality.
Walton Goggins
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Walton Goggins
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: November 10
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Birmingham
Alabama
Walton Sanders Goggins
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