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“The people I'm drawn to are sort of self-created. They came from backgrounds where not much was expected of them, necessarily.” quote by Anthony McCarten — Download Open image

“The people I'm drawn to are sort of self-created. They came from backgrounds where not much was expected of them, necessarily.”

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