Grimes
Grimes
Electronic dark wave and synthpop artist whose 2012 album Visions won the 2013 JUNO Award for Electronic Album of the Year.
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth17 March 1988
CityVancouver, Canada
CountryCanada
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I was raising seven kids. I lived in the bedrooms, in the laundry room, in the kitchen, in the car - car pooling all over. I just didn't have time to sit down and watch a lot of TV. So I really didn't.
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With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.
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My mother had early-onset Alzheimer's, and it took her four years to die. She was only 44; I was 14.
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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My Aunt Marsha ruled the family with a rod of iron. She was one wicked, mean woman.
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Life continues to be difficult. It always will be because that's just life. But I am so glad I have put some happiness into the world.
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It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.
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I put the movie days totally behind me... It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.
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I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.
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Everybody has some sorrow, worry, and everybody asks God for help.
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I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.
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I started with the Target Company in 1993 when their Christmas theme that year was 'It's A Wonderful Life,' and they reunited the actors who played the Bailey kids. So we went all over and really had a blast getting the love from all of the fans and thought, 'Whoopty-doo, there's something going on here.'
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It's a nightmare. There's so much unknown material in that water. You have to assume there's a lot of toxic material. Some of it could stick around for months or years.
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It's like there was the Union, and then there's the Union Management. In some of the strikes that I covered when I saw the strike starting to break, wasn't necessarily when Management was giving in, more so than when the strikers were at odds with the Union Management.