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Practice. Learn and then unlearn - that's the trick in finding your own style of playing. You can't merely emulate, you have to innovate, or at the very least create your own path into the process.

Carrie Brownstein

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Carrie Brownstein
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: September 27
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Carrie Rachel Grace Brownstein
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