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I want to break the old paradigm of thinking that if you're successful, you have to crash and burn-that all of this won't be there tomorrow.

Meredith Brooks

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Meredith Brooks
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: June 12
Composer
Guitarist
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Oregon City
Oregon
Paradigm
Crash
Burn
Tomorrow
Successful
Break
Thinking

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