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When you write the script, you're home in a room by yourself, and you're writing, and there's no connection with the real performing world. So you get a lot of things wrong and make a lot of mistakes and make a lot of bad choices.

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Woody Allen
Age: 88
Born: 1935
Born: December 1
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