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I like being behind the camera because I can control perception and what people see.
Grimes
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Grimes
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: March 17
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Vancouver
British Columbia
Claire Elise Boucher
Claire Boucher
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In America there's lot of cool cities, but in Canada there's, like, well, Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax may be cool, but they're so expensive. Montreal is the only city that's affordable but also has buses and culture.
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Miami is just really fun whenever I go there. It's like this post-apocalyptic Barbie world: everything is pink, and there're palm trees everywhere. But then there are also all these people in crazy sunglasses, warehouses with sick parties where all the girls are covered in spikes and black leather. It's a very weird place.
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I'm sad that it's uncool or offensive to talk about environmental or human rights issues.
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