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Everybody's trying to be the biggest, because if you're not the biggest, you don't survive.

Shirley Manson

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Shirley Manson
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 26
Actor
Feminist
Film Actor
Guitarist
Model
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
Edinburgh
Scotland
Shirley Ann Manson
Survive
Biggest
Everybody
Trying

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