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I would love to have a number one hit. The truth is if I don't get one, I'll be fine, but at the same time, the truth is that I'm dying for one, as well.

Rufus Wainwright

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Rufus Wainwright
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 22
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Rhinebeck (village)
New York
Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright
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I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's 'War and Peace' everyday.
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Once you've fallen from classical virtue, won't have a soul for to wake up and hold you.
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But I don't even think you hear me at all Under your medieval ceiling behind your biblical wall
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Unless I have my aunt or my boyfriend to take care of me, I'm a little pathetic.
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All humans realize they are loved when witnessing the dawn early morning is the triumph of good over evil. Absolved by light we decide to go on.
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A diaper is as inspiring as a drink.
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And you will believe in love And all that it's supposed to be But just until the fish start to smell And you're struck down by a hammer.
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Let the little fairy in you fly!
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One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists.
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My dad and I have always been somewhat competitive.
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I am always writing if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output.
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I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.
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I basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know - I'm always afraid to describe it as a kind of therapeutic process, but nevertheless it was a type of unloading that had to occur due to my personal life with my mother's health or just my professional trials and tribulations.
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Being uncool is being pretty much the coolest you can be.
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The more hedonistic you were, the better...I very much subscribed to that as a young artist.
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Guess the world needs both sun And the moon too Sad with what I have except for you.
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My greatest experiences in the theatre and the most religious experiences in my life - of which going to the opera is one for me - have been with the Romantic composers' repertoire: it's Wagner, it's Strauss, Verdi, Puccini. That era gets me every time.
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I think the minute you mention death, people run for the hills - unless it's heavy metal. People do not like death.
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