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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
Alex Kapranos
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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
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Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
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Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.
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There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.
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Why play a chord when you can play one note?
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I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
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If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it's OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them.
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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.
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You can always have it better. If you try... [This is the right attitude:] Never to feel [completely] satisfied, always to want to do something better!
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