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Tom Verlaine

"I just don't like people coming up to me and saying something. It immediately makes you become insincere. There is no way you can react to it sincerely."

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"I just don't like people coming up to me and saying something. It immediately makes you become insincere. There is no way you can react to it sincerely."

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