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“I know I'm 38 but I insist that santa claus exists and he raped my mother when I was 9.”

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Thom Yorke is a British musician born on October 7, 1968. He is the lead vocalist and lyricist of the renowned rock band Radiohead, known for his distinctive voice and profound lyrics. more

“I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification. And in a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.”

Want Desire Artist Process Expression Function Edges Accepted Instant Breasts Feeding Toilets Gratification Repressed Instant Gratification

Author:Bat for Lashes

“One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well.”

Wells Persons Doe Film Responsibility Shoulders

Author:Kevin Costner

“It's very much to do with how I'm feeling ... I love to be experimental and use eclectic mismatched things and put them together to see what third entity is created! I'm not really frightened by experimenting - that's the main thing. I really like mixing very old beautiful pieces that are from thrift shops or that have some historical value with quite new futuristic things.”

Use Feelings Together Beautiful Values Pieces Thirds Historical Shops Frightened Entity Mixing Thrift Eclectic Futuristic Historical Value

Author:Bat for Lashes

“Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.”

Dad Dramatic Spares Storyteller Lashes Spare Time Illustrators Very Inspiring

Author:Bat for Lashes

“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. Let us not speak well of it either. Let us not speak of it at all. It is true the population has increased.”

World Wells Speak Laughing Generations Tears Constant Ill Population Quantity Somewhere Else Our Generation Predecessors Godot Waiting For Godot

Book:The collected works of Samuel Beckett

Source: The collected works of Samuel Beckett

“To-morrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of to-day?”

Thinking Morrow Godot Waiting For Godot

Book:I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader

Source: I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader

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