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I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift.

Regina Spektor

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Regina Spektor
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: February 18
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I saw certain things that I think maybe other kids are protected from. Like, I saw my parents struggling. I knew that we were cutting out coupons and buying dented cans because they were cheaper. And all our furniture was from the garbage. It was just - and to me because I was a kid, all that stuff was really exciting.
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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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It's painful to watch your parents not be in control of things.
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You ask a person what their personal favorite song on the album is, and it's literally the one with the least amount of listens if you looked at the statistics of it.
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The world that has made us can no longer contain us
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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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Love is the answer to a question that I have forgotten
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Never, never mind your bleeding heart.
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I think that so many people don't understand how easy it is to be broke, how easy it is to find yourself in a situation where you're in an absolutely foreign place.
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So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.
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I don't kiss losers and I don't kiss winners, and I don't fight for honor 'cause we all are born sinners
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I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would have an answer. That's the magic when you read or hear something wonderful - there's no one that has all the answers.
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I also don't like to make really big records, because I feel then that the songs don't get enough space to be themselves, so I would never want to make a record that's like seventeen songs.
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It feels very good to sing in Russian. It feels so good inside my body.
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I'm like, 'Would you be the person in the room that would boo when Dylan went electric? I know I wouldn't. Or are you the person that left The Beatles after 'She Loves You,' or 'Drive My Car?' You weren't on board for 'Revolution 9' or 'Day In The Life,' were you?'
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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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Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.
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I am very close with my parents, they are very amazing, so loving, so cool, and really valued art.
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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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Its not like I have all the answers.
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