A Quote by Rick Smolan

I was painfully shy when I was a kid. I always thought when most people were born, part of the toolkit was teaching you how to relate to other people - and it was just left out of my toolkit.

Rick Smolan

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Rick Smolan
American - Photographer
Born: November 5, 1949

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