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A pop song is a condensed version of a life in three minutes, whereas, when you go to write your prose, you have to find the rhythm in your words, and you have to find the rhythm in the voice that you have found and the way you're speaking.

Bruce Springsteen

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