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Brian Setzer

"I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorites. I didn't think that they were indicative of '54 to '57, although I tried to stay within that period."

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"I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorites. I didn't think that they were indicative of '54 to '57, although I tried to stay within that period."

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"When I was 17 I sent a picture up to an agency, and within a week I was in The Sun five days in a row."

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"I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile."

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"I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorites. I didn't think that they were indicative of '54 to '57, although I tried to stay within that period."

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"The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud."

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"Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe."

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"I don't smoke, I don't drink much, I don't eat red meat. I stay out of the sun."

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"It's best not to stare at the sun during an eclipse."

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"I'm not a sun person."

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"Near the sun is the center of the universe."

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"True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun."

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