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I have spent my life working to protect our country. I served three tours in Iraq with the CIA, served in national security positions under Presidents of both parties, and at the Pentagon.
Elissa Slotkin
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Cia
National Security
Pentagon
Protect
Security
Three
Life My Life Country
Both Parties
Tours
Working
National
Parties
Positions
Presidents
Served
Spent
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I've done a lot of different tours. For me, I try to go on tours that I think are gonna be fun. It's, like, grueling, and it's hard, and there's got to be an element to it that's exciting.
Kelis
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Singer-Songwriter
Done Me Fun
Tours
Element
Grueling
Me Fun Done
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Through our concerts and tours, we learned that our music is capable of bringing people together, breaking borders and genres. To symbolize all of that, we decided to sing 'The One' in English.
Suzuka Nakamoto
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Borders
Concerts
Music Together People
Breaking
Tours
Genres
Our Music
Symbolize
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Being a writer usually entails a fairly quiet life. However much travel one might do, however many tours and appearances, the job entails solitude: long hours in libraries, long hours at a desk.
Jill Paton Walsh
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Novelist
Travel
Long Hours
Quiet
Quiet Life
Solitude
Fairly
Appearances
Tours
Desk
Entails
However
Libraries
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I hate it when people slag us off. We had done three tours during 1970 and we finished off feeling we had just about had enough. We had done so much in that short space of time, we were drained.
John Bonham
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Musician
Drained
Had Enough
Slag
Time Space Enough
Tours
Short Space
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Whether such socialism is foolish naivety or heroic idealism is a matter of opinion, but what is certain is that, however many CDs are sold or tours sold out, the sound waves themselves are free.
Stephen Hough
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Cds
Foolish
Heroic
Idealism
Opinion
Socialism
Tours
However
Sold
Waves
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Sometimes It's hard when you come from Mexico, because it's a different style, but I had the advantage of my tours to Japan, and with that experience I was able to understand what WWE want from me.
Andrade
/
Advantage
Japan
Mexico
Wwe
Tours
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One of the great joys of life, now that you can afford a nice suit, is getting one for free. That's why I like to do press tours - I always say making movies is just an excuse to get free clothing.
Eli Roth
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Film Director
Excuse
Joy
Nice
Suits
Afford
Life Great Movies
Tours
Clothing
Joys
Making Movies
Press
Suit
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Age focuses you. You are much better concentrated. There's more time when you travel less, don't do book tours, avoid interviews or public appearances. You walk the dogs, fish, hunt, cook and write.
Jim Harrison
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Author
Age
Travel
Book
Appearances
Avoid
Less
Fish
Tours
Cook
Concentrated
Public
Dogs
Walk
Hunt
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I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.
Jack Irons
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Musician
Cameron
Healing
Recovery
Replaced
Years
Life Lost My Life
Tours
Finish
Life My Life Lost
Matt
Planned
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One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don't want to be seen as a band that tours and plays old songs. We feel that we are making the best music of our careers.
Andrew Fletcher
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Careers
Tours
Old Songs
Plays
Reasons
Survive
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I have been very fortunate to be a part of tours with other artists that have exposed me to new places that I've never been before. Once you discover something beautiful, you just want to keep coming back.
Sara Bareilles
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Singer-Songwriter
Artist
Beautiful
Exposed
Fortunate
New Places
Want
Tours
Discover
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I have to admit that talking authoritatively about my students' stories can make me feel, at times, like an astronaut who has just landed on a new planet and insists on giving guided tours to its inhabitants.
Etgar Keret
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Writer
Astronaut
Giving
Stories
Talking
Admit
Tours
Me New Feel
Landed
Guided
Inhabitants
Insists
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Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
Malcolm D. Lee
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Film Director
Pandora
Record Companies
Spotify
Album
Time Money Music
Artists
Tours
Companies
Record
Sales
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On YouTube you can tell what countries are watching and I've definitely noted a strong Australian following. You can plan your tours around where the love is on Twitter and YouTube - before, you couldn't tell.
Imogen Heap
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Singer-Songwriter
Australian
Following
Love Is
Youtube
Love Love Is Your
Love Where Love Is
Twitter
Tours
Noted
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In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war.
Mark Burnett
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Television Producer
War
Active
Airplane
Ireland
Northern Ireland
Teens
Two
Budget
Tours
Joined
Northern
Parachute
Regiment
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People assume that because I'm a girl and my blog is hot pink that my readership is 90% women, but it's not. It's probably only about 65%. When I do tours, it's pretty much the same thing: it's about one-third guys.
Jenny Lawson
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Journalist
Girl
Guy
People
Readership
Assume
Blog
Tours
One-Third
Pink
Same Thing
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My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.
Bruce Springsteen
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Musician
Bones
Couple
Past
People
Rising
Past People Live
Steer
Bare
Tours
General Rule
Live Shows
Material
Past Couple
Rule
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Obviously I'm really busy, fitting in WWE stuff and appearances like this now, all the events I've done and the SmackDown tours, then travelling. I've just been to Singapore, I've been to Canada... all over the world.
Pete Dunne
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Author
Canada
Fitting
Singapore
Appearances
Tours
Fitting In
Travelling
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I have traveled a fair amount, and I have visited some great cities. I love architecture and museums and castles and ruins and central markets and even double-decker bus tours. But, I am a sucker for a tropical beach.
Chelsea Cain
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Novelist
Architecture
Beach
Bus
Castles
Cities
Museums
Ruins
Sucker
Traveled
Love Great I Am
Tours
Central
Fair Amount
Markets
Visited
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People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Former President Of Iran
Iran
People
Should Have
Wide
Scale
Tours
Contacts
Easily
Engage
Monuments
Sites
Visit
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I get really excited when I get to go out on these press tours and meet fans, do signings and interact, and they can ask questions. Social media is a great way to do that, and I wish I was better at it, but I'm just not.
Lucy Fry
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Actress
Social Media
Tours
Great Way
Interact
Meet
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You have to pay attention, like with tours and expenses; you have to factor that all in. You want to play music for the rest of your life, you have to pay attention to all the things. You want to know what's always going on.
Zakk Wylde
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Musician
Attention
Expenses
Pay
Pay Attention
Life Music Always
Tours
Rest
Factor
Play Music
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As someone who's spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda, I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.
Al Franken
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United States Senator
Men
Afghanistan
Behalf
Iraq
Men And Women
Obligation
Troops
Warrior
Wounded
Life Time Women
Life Time Men
Reed
Tours
Limb
Risked
Warriors
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Especially with the signing of riders with climbing abilities and the new arrival of Tyler Hamilton, who has the strength and ability to become a great leader for the big tours. All in all, I feel this is a very complete team.
Laurent Jalabert
/
Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Climbing
Great Leader
Hiking
Riders
Signing
Team
Arrival
Tours
Complete
Tyler
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I've been to the Hall of Fame many times, in grade school and high school. I had field trips to the Hall of Fame and taking tours of it. I just never thought about that one day I possibly might be in it. I think it'd be great.
Patrick Ewing
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Basketball Player
Fame
High School
One Day
School
Thinking
Great Day Never
Tours
Grade
Grade School
Hall
Possibly
Trips
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There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.
Ian Anderson
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Singer-Songwriter
Band
Carefree
Deals
Flight
Hotel
Inclination
Musician
Rocks
Seems
Taken
Too Much
Among
Tours
Line
Rock
Musicians
Negotiate
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When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all of my book tours since then have involved me coming to a library and talking about how important libraries are for a community.
Karin Slaughter
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Writer
Community Me Important
Tours
Libraries
Published
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I've planned book tours for myself, whether or not anybody wants to hear what I have to say. I've weighed in on things like what the cover looks like, what the copy looks like, how it's going to be promoted - just every aspect of it.
Adam Mansbach
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Aspect
Tours
Copy
Cover
Planned
Promoted
Weighed
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You open up a lot of tours making nothing just for the fact that you need to start somewhere and get some exposure. When you start to headline your tours, all the money is in headlining, but there's no money in headlining small rooms.
G-Eazy
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Rapper
Exposure
Rooms
Somewhere
Tours
Headline
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A band that makes records and tours is also a business. That's usually where a lot of disagreements come. It's four guys who are musicians and don't really know much about business, but are very passionate and have very specific ideas.
Chris Cornell
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Musician
Tours
Disagreements
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I've worked behind counters serving food, and I've lived on the circus train, and I've led bicycle tours in Eastern Europe and the Balkans and Russia. I've been a key liner for a newspaper, I've done typesetting. Oh, all sorts of things.
Bonnie Jo Campbell
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Novelist
Balkans
Bicycle
Circus
Eastern
Eastern Europe
Europe
Keys
Russia
Serving
Tours
Led
Newspaper
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Wings was one of the first bands in the 1970s to do stadium tours, as well as Led Zeppelin. We had all the most up-to-date equipment from monitor systems to a laser light show and that was like the biggest, most awesome experience for me.
Denny Laine
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Equipment
Up To Date
Wings
Tours
Laser
Led Zeppelin
Monitor
Stadium
Systems
Zeppelin
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We were worried at first that our music and message wouldn't get across because we were singing in Japanese. But as we continued doing world tours, we realized and felt that music surpasses such things as language barriers, countries and race.
Yui Mizuno
/
Barriers
Singing
Worried
Tours
Countries
Japanese
Our Music
Realized
Such Things
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I've made my records and I've done all the interviews. I've done lots of long tours. I've made stupid videos. I've done all that stuff and learned all the lingo and gone to radio stations and shmoozed with DJs on the air and met retail people.
Frank Black
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Djs
Interviews
Radio Stations
Retail
Stations
Stupid
Tours
Videos
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Obama's gift for delivering set-piece oratorical tours de force had special resonance to Americans fed up with a president who could hardly string two words together without a collision of syntax and whose idea of clever was the single entendre.
Tina Brown
/
Journalist
Clever
Collision
Delivering
Fed Up
Force
President
Resonance
Single
Special
Syntax
Together
Words
Obama
Tours
Idea
Fed
Hardly
String
Whose
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Skating was popular, but it wasn't mainstream. It had this underground following, and you could go on tours, win decent prize money, and make royalties from signature products - that's how I came to buy a house when I was a senior in high school.
Tony Hawk
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Skateboarder
Decent
Following
High School
House
Mainstream
Prize
Products
Senior
Skating
Buy
Tours
Popular
Royalties
Signature
Underground
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A few weeks after the planes hit the World Trade Center, I applied for a direct commission in the U.S. Army Reserve and ultimately served three active duty tours, including overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan. Really, my whole family served three tours.
Cal Cunningham
/
Family
Active
Afghanistan
Army
Direct
Including
Planes
Three
Whole
World Trade
World Trade Center
After
Applied
Hit
Weeks
Tours
Center
Commission
Few
Overseas
Reserve
Served
Ultimately
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I'd heard a lot of Motown and Stax when I was a kid, but the more well-known end of it. On Jam tours, we had a DJ called Ady Croasdell who ran a '60s club. He turned me on to underground stuff and what people call northern soul. It just blew my mind.
Paul Weller
/
Musician
Heard
Jam
Motown
Ran
Soul
Stuff
Blew
Soul Mind Me
Call
Tours
Club
Dj
Northern
Turned
Underground
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I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not.
Kazuo Ishiguro
/
Novelist
Book
Hiking
Midwest
My Time
Office
People
Spending
Weird
Time Myself World
Answering
Questions
Tours
Different World
Explain
Resign
Stand Up
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I work really long hours and work a lot and have done press tours and junkets, but there is nothing like a presidential campaign that I have experienced before... I think at one point we visited three different cities in one state in 12 hours. It's exhausting.
America Ferrera
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Actress
Cities
Exhausting
Long Hours
Presidential
Presidential Campaign
Work Long Nothing
Campaign
Tours
Experienced
Visited
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To say I have played through four World Cups, two Lions tours, 91 international games and a ridiculous number of injuries and other setbacks gives me an incredibly special feeling of fulfilment. I know myself well enough to know that I will never truly be satisfied.
Jonny Wilkinson
/
Rugby Player
Cups
Fulfilment
Games
International
Lions
Numbers
Satisfied
Two
Myself World Me
Tours
Incredibly
Injuries
Setbacks
Well Enough
World Cups
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But by us doing a lot on the road, we were able to afford things like videos on the tours, cartoons that we'd open up the shows with. We were doing that way back when and now it's the hippest thing to do. We're just coming back around, I guess trying to play catch-up.
Bootsy Collins
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Musician
Cartoon
Play
Trying
Afford
Tours
Cartoons
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During my 20 years as a Marine, I served three combat tours and as a Congressional Fellow advising a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee on defense and foreign policy. I went on to serve in the Pentagon as Marine Corps' liaison to the State Department.
Amy Mcgrath
/
Armed Services
Combat
Defense
Department
Foreign Policy
Marine
Marine Corps
Pentagon
Policy
Senior
Advising
Armed
Tours
Committee
Congressional
Corps
Fellow
Member
Serve
State Department
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I have hundreds and hundreds of songs waiting to get on albums, but I don't know about the three-month radio tours and if I'll be interested in that. I haven't figured it out, but I will definitely be doing music, whether it is independent or with a major record label.
Jewel
/
Singer-Songwriter
Albums
Independent
Radio
Song
Waiting
Tours
Figured
Hundreds
Major
Label
Record Label
Three-Month
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Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism - no one should have to choose between doing right by their country and doing right by their families.
Evan Bayh
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Former U.s. Senator
Patriotism
Circumstances
Country
Expected
Financial
Military
Should Have
Tours
Due
Dire
Facing
Families
Penalized
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On August 28, 2010, Fox News messiah Glenn Beck hosted a 'Restoring Honor' revival meeting featuring sexy guest star Sarah Palin, much as Bob Hope would roll out Raquel Welch in white go-go boots on his U.S.O. tours to give our fighting men a morale lift in their khakis.
James Wolcott
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Journalist
August
Boots
Fighting
Fox News
Honor
Messiah
Morale
Palin
Restoring
Revival
Sexy
Stars
Beck
Tours
Fox
Glenn
Guest
Guest Star
Lift
Meeting
Sarah Palin
Sarah
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I would never take part in one of those Eighties nostalgia tours, although I've been asked many times, because it's like admitting you have nothing new to offer. As long as I can keep making music I'm happy with, and people want to come to my gigs to hear it, I'll carry on.
Gary Numan
/
Singer
Admitting
Gigs
Nostalgia
Nothing New
Music Long People
Although
Asked
Tours
Carry
Eighties
Hear
Never Take
Offer
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I doubt anyone has ever accused comedians of solidarity before. It's hard to think of a less collegiate world than that of unabashed professional narcissists competing for attention; even when we reluctantly band together on panel shows, we're only trying to sell solo tours.
Frankie Boyle
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Comedian
Accused
Attention
Band
Competing
Doubt
Solidarity
Tours
Comedians
Sell
Panel
Reluctantly
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In pop music, the public usually see the results - the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours - but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won't make it.
Bruno Mars
/
Singer-Songwriter
Awards
Grammy
Pop Music
Records
Spotlight
Tours
Chances
Concert
Hit Records
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