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Sometimes you feel like you have to do research to make something, other times you know you don't feel it so much.
Willem Dafoe
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Willem Dafoe
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: July 22
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Appleton
Wisconsin
William J. Willem Dafoe
William James Dafoe
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Celebrity is okay as long as you know it's not about you.
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I've never had any close male friends. The most important relationships in my life have always been with women.
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