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Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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A lot of people these days are not music lovers – they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in. – Shirley Manson

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