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It's painful to watch your parents not be in control of things.
Regina Spektor
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Regina Spektor
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: February 18
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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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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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I think it's ridiculous that we even have to talk about gay rights as rights...It's gonna be as shocking as the treatment of slaves someday.
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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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Art is arbitrary but it sort of reveals itself to be right or wrong anyway.
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I met this wonderful guy who owned an old pub near the Eiffel Tower called Malone's (he's French but it's an Irish name). He had a cellar with a piano and told me I could use it whenever I wanted to. I played lots of gigs down there. When I came back I played a show at the Knitting Factory.
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I have this obsession with the '80s because I missed all of it.
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I hate picking favourite books. I usually tend to stay away from all the 'top record' and 'favourite song' and 'favourite book', and I just think it doesn't do any good for anybody.
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It feels very good to sing in Russian. It feels so good inside my body.
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Its not like I have all the answers.
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God, our world is so complicated.
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There's something about trying to know when you really need to protect yourself, or else you're not going to get anything done, and sometimes to be really uncomfortable or agitated or annoyed or bored. Boredom is so important.
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I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust?
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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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I think that you have to let yourself be agitated and annoyed and not be fully comfortable.
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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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