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It's always a struggle to make things sound more or less brilliant.

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Victoria Legrand
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: May 28
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Paris
France
Brilliant
Struggle
Sound
Less
Make
Always
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People who create art would be fools to assume they know exactly what people are going to think of it.
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I don't like to read the Internet I'm not aware of what's going on.
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