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It takes a certain amount of courage to let the field lie fallow until you have something to say.

Emmylou Harris

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Emmylou Harris
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: April 12
Country Singer
Guitarist
Recording Artist
Singer-Songwriter
Birmingham
Alabama
Courage
Amount
Silence
Takes
Lying
Certain
Fallow
Something
Field
Fields

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