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I hate doing anything in offices. I either want to be out in the world or in my own environment - and it should be your own environment that you work in.

William Monahan

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William Monahan
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: November 3
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I'm more from a double world where I wasn't part of anything or invested in anything, because I was Irish, and very Irish, but also the other part of my family, not that it had airs, or money, was descended from the first minister on Cape Ann in the 1620s.
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