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You make films whether they're dramas or comedies about neurotic people. Flawed people. Interesting personality traits. To make them about calm, stable untroubled people isn't interesting.
Woody Allen
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Woody Allen
Age: 88
Born: 1935
Born: December 1
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I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.
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I don't inhale because it gives you cancer, but I look so incredibly handsome with a cigarette that I can't not hold one.
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