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MY LIFE IN 10 PICTURES CLINT EASTWOOD

He’s a movie icon who’s played too many fearless, gun-toting tough guys to count. “My dad taught me that whatever you do, do it well,” Clint Eastwood says. But growing up, he was “painfully shy”. “I spent a lot of time by myself and learned to exist on [my] own company,” the star, 90, tells magazine. It helped him understand quiet, steely-eyed loners like the title characters he played in and , and build up the inner fortitude to carve his own path in Hollywood.

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