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" The misconception about the record company is that they were the ones who got me wearing short skirts, or got me to do my hair blond, or got me to dance around onstage and start doing different things with my clothes. No, that was actually all me. "

Grace Potter

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Clothes

Dance

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Poetry

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Rock And Roll

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