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I've come up against a few challenges. I've just taken them on with a really pure energy. I'm not out to change people's minds. I'm out to maybe educate and inspire.
Meredith Brooks
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Meredith Brooks
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: June 12
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Singer-Songwriter
Oregon City
Oregon
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My favorite color is purple. I have a huge velvet purple comforter on my bed.
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If we didn't live in a society that told us we're not OK if we're not making 100 grand a year, I think we'd all be a lot happier.
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I had a very sexual experience onstage once. But I won't go there.
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The Graces was a great experience it's great working with women, but we weren't put together in an organic way, and I think that's why we didn't stay together. There wasn't that natural friendship.
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Whatever it is that you love to do, be it collect comic books or play the guitar, that you can make a living at it, do it.
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