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Profession: Actor
Nationality: American
Birthday: May 17, 1966

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You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life; the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.
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Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.


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As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.
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