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 need to be able to work for 20 or 30 hours in one go in complete darkness, alone with just the computer glow.
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I like talking to people and I do a lot of work here. I put up a lot of the frames for the art and photos, and I like building things for the museum.
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After three years of losing, it's nice to finally come out on top. What's so great is that everybody keeps pushing, and we stay strong as a team. We all work well together, and everyone knows who is going to be where on the field.
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I'm not surprised, ... He's a kid with some athletic ability who has worked his butt off. I'm not surprised at all.
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It took about six years to get the Black Lung stuff. It didn't come just instantly. Sometimes, I see lobby groups, today, upset because they work the whole session and nothing happens.
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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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We must endure the monotony of evryday work to be able to finance our dreams.
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We had had several mine disasters where workers, some of the workers were rescued. It was, you know, who was lucky and who weren't. Some would find the air pockets But, in this one, bam, it was just, everybody was gone and it greatly depressed the state.
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The greatest risk is if the situation at Delphi doesn't work itself out. An organized or wildcat strike would have a great impact on General Motors and make those potholes out there much wider and deeper.
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There used to be a lot of industry in Montreal, and now there's not, so it's really easy to get huge, empty spaces where you can practice and make music or make art for very, very cheap.
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The thing is, I really like working. If I sit around too much, I get really bad anxiety.
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I'm not good at being, like, a sexy girl.
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I'm not interested in making art unless I'm totally freaked out and worried people are going to hate it.
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I'm not, like, a natural performer. It's sort of a thing that I've had to learn to do.