Mark Twain: The Great Writer & Philosopher
Said the great writer and philosopher Mark Twain: "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
Said the great writer and philosopher Mark Twain: "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
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In the documentary I Am Burt Reynolds, the popular actor, Burt Reynolds, expressed regret over posing as a nude centerfold for the magazine Cosmopolitan. "I never would have done it…
James Dean got the part in Giant (1956) only when Alan Ladd turned it down.
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