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When I was young, and I'd get A's, I'd get this good feeling of all the things that I could be. And then I'd never became any of them.

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Will Smith
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 25
Actor
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Philadelphia
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Fresh Prince
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Willard Carroll Smith Jr.
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