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Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.

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Wim Wenders
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 14
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Dusseldorf
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Ernst Wilhelm Wenders
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