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Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch - what make you go beyond the norm.

Cicely Tyson

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Cicely Tyson
Age: 87 †
Born: 1933
Born: December 19
Died: 2021
Died: January 28
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