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I let her do some of my laundry and she slipped in a few meals in between, and next thing I remember, she was all moved in.
Jackson Browne
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Jackson Browne
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: October 9
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Clyde Jackson Browne
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Where the search for the truth is conducted with a wink and a nod And where power and position are equated with the grace of God These times are famine for the soul while for the senses it's a feast From the edge of my country, as far as you see, looking east
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The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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Do the steps that you've been shown, by everyone you've ever known, until the dance becomes your very own.
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And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.
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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
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Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels. Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields.
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