"I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives."
"As a child I always had a sense of social conditions and political situations. I think it had to do with the fact that my mother was always discussing things with my sister and me - also because I read a lot."
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Source: Song: Remember The Tinman, Album: New Beginning, 1995
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