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I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.
Edith Piaf
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Edith Piaf
Age: 47 †
Born: 1915
Born: December 19
Died: 1963
Died: October 11
Actor
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Songwriter
Street Artist
Providence
Rhode Island
Édith Giovanna Gassion
The Little Sparrow
La Señora Piaf
Edith Piaf
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Understand
Even
Make
People
Cry
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I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
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To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.
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Use your faults, use your defects then you're going to be a star.
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Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.
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