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Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

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Julian Casablancas
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: August 23
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Songwriter
New York City
New York
Julian Fernando Casablancas
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A band is a great way to destroy a friendship, and a tour's a great way to destroy a band.
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Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien people there had a lot of money.
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It's not like I wake up and songs flow out of me.
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If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don't think the second option is some big sellout.
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Making an album can be like being pregnant: you want to pop that thing out and show everybody!
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Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
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Don't you dare get to the top and not know what to do.
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I'm just going to try and be a good dad and not spoil the kid: give him love and encouragement but also discipline. Me and my woman, we don't want him to feel too entitled.
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Forgive them even if they are not sorry
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Working on music is the funnest thing for me, and I love it, and I could do it all day, all night.
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The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.
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No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.
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Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.
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The way Lou Reed wrote and sang about drugs and sex, about the people around him - it was so matter-of-fact.
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I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.
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Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.
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I over-think stuff a lot.
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Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
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