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Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk
Regina Spektor
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Regina Spektor
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: February 18
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God, our world is so complicated.
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As you get older as an animal on the planet, you want to get a little more comfortable, you want to get cozier.
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This is how it works You peer inside yourself You take the things you like And try to love the things you took And then you take that love you made And stick it into some Someone else's heart Pumping someone else's blood.
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I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.
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I started to write before I went to SUNY Purchase music conservatory. As an audition I submitted what I now think are really awful songs, but I guess they saw something in them.
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Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.
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Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience.
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It's always interesting to me to see people projecting things, like people would say, This record is much more mature than your other record and I would think, Well, this record has more songs from when I was 18 on it than the other one.
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I think that you have to let yourself be agitated and annoyed and not be fully comfortable.
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I was a kid, and I was very excited to experience this whole new world. And everything was fun, everything from, oh, wow, we get bananas - I'd only seen them in picture books, you know - to, like, the diversity of the neighborhood and to explore Judaism for the first time. It was really hushed in the Soviet Union.
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And people are just people, They shouldn't make you nervous. The world is everlasting, It's coming and it's going.
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I think that I'm always going to think that it's silly to value certain things that no matter how many people find it really valuable, it's always just going to seem a little silly to me.
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The other day I was down by the Hudson River, and I see two nuns in full habit rollerblading down the street holding hands. And I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I get it. The world is surreal and beautiful. And everything is fine.'
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