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" When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element? "
Natalie Cole
Human
Hope
Faith
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" It's the subtleties of a ballad that truly make it beautiful - and it's all in the way you present it to the listener. "
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First
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" It's the same girl-who-has-everything story. You know, the one where she's insecure and scared and unhappy and has marriage problems and doesn't know how to handle stardom and screws up right and left and gets in with the wrong people and goes down the drain. "
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