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The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing, which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being.

William Hurt

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William Hurt
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 20
Film Actor
Film Producer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Washington
District of Columbia
William McChord Hurt
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