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"I don't look at myself as being a dame. I just look at myself as my mother and father's adopted daughter that they ga…"

"I don't want to hear my voice... It is in the past. When I'm teaching young singers and hearing beautiful young fresh…"

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"A consistent thread in my work is that it’s made in response to place, and what’s happening around me – physical and …"

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