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Every Time I Create Something, Just Before That There's A Kind Of - You're Feeling Very Low, You're Feeling Very Down And Insecure. Then You Create And Then It's Fine. This Is The Way I Observe Me Doing It.

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Every Time I Create

Yoko Ono

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Every Time I Create Something, Just Before That There's A Kind Of - You're Feeling Very Low, You're Feeling Very Down And Insecure. Then You Create And Then It's Fine. This Is The Way I Observe Me Doing It.

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