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If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live.
Jessye Norman
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Jessye Norman
Age: 74 †
Born: 1945
Born: September 15
Died: 2019
Died: September 30
Opera Singer
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Georgia
Jessye Mae Norman
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