"I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers."

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"I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers."

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"I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers."

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"The demands are related to their questing of the best possible out of the people concerned. It's this going for the highest possible factor that I'm very concerned about."

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