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I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.

James Taylor

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James Taylor
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 12
Guitarist
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
James Vernon Taylor
Lifetime
Accept
Accepting
Wonder
Dies
Many
Awards
Sometimes
Decent
Thing
Achievement

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