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When I would be on the stage singing, I would see a movie of something that happened, I would be telling the story. I would be describing the story in sound, but my goal would be to make somebody else run their own movie.
Linda Ronstadt
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Linda Ronstadt
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: July 15
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