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I've always wanted to do a movie, and I really feel the urge to do it.I'm in Hollywood - I have no business not being in the movie industry.

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Ariel Pink
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: June 24
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Singer-Songwriter
LA
California
Business
Wanted
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Feels
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Really
Urges
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Hollywood
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I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.
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I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.
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You marry your friends when you stay with your friends. It's hard enough to find a good roommate, let alone a good person you can live with and fall in love with at the same time. You might as well just take your roommate, if you can find one, and marry them. I mean, if you can find somebody that doesn't drive you crazy, I would say marry that.
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When making a record, I could done a new face pretty easily and use all these different devices to hide who I am - or who I was - which really had very little to do with what I was trying to convey.
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I was been raised to believe I was an artist. I believed what my parents said and fulfilled it, like a prophecy.
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I know when somebodys heard my music. I can hear it in their music.
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That's really what keeps me playing live - appreciation. And I guess I've made a lot of wiggle room for myself to try different things and discover what I'm doing, and the audience accepts it.
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I still have a very nonintellectual, nonjudgmental relationship with melody and the music as I hear it all in my head.
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Talk about a struggling artist having to work against enormous odds ... But I love movies so much, so I'm going to do it.
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