Ethan Hawke
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Townes Van Zandt’s To Live Is To Fly.
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Kathleen Turner
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One of my daughter's. She wrote a song for me called Strong Like You, and she played it at the opening of my last play, Mother Courage. Every mother there cried.
Donny Osmond
American singer, dancer, actor, television host
Not Puppy Love.
Jerry Hall
American model and actress
Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien, by Edith Piaf.
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