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" My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me. "
Haley Joel Osment
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Me
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" My parents were both born in Birmingham, Alabama, and come from large Catholic families with lots of Michaels, Marks, and Patricks, so they wanted to choose two names that I don't think you could find anywhere else in the family tree: Haley and Joel. "
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