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After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself.

Bruce Springsteen

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Bruce Springsteen
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: September 23
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