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Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.

Van Morrison

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Van Morrison
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 31
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There's novel reading, and then there's the other kind of reading. Take somebody like Carl Jung, the psychiatrist - now there's somebody worth getting into. With novels, I'm kind of fly by night. It isn't something I can be really consistent with.
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Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.
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It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
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