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There's an artist that I listened to for the first time, and I really didn't like them. I had some kind of adverse reaction, and later, it became my favorite thing.
Regina Spektor
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Regina Spektor
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: February 18
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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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It feels very good to sing in Russian. It feels so good inside my body.
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It's painful to watch your parents not be in control of things.
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This is the way I want to die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song.
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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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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 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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Never, never mind your bleeding heart.
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I have this obsession with the '80s because I missed all of it.
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