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“I'm just a regular 16 year old kid. I make good grilled cheese and I like girls.”
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“I wondered if people might not have had enough of Simon Armitage and wondered whether I hadn't had enough of Simon Armitage.”
Source : "It's not poetry, it's a midlife crisis". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2001.
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“My main influences are pop and folk music - Bob Lind, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, the Motown collection, The Zombies, Elliott Smith, and a ton of 70's AM radio hits. I love powerpop too.”
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“I meditate and I'm passionate about it.”
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“Nonetheless, I'm not sure this entirely accounts for my Buddhist voice, which tells me forever to give up writing, to give up on relationships, simply to give up. Whatever it is, it doesn't seem to me to be the voice of innocence.”
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“Stop pathetically believing that you deserve fame or fame deserves you. It's yucky, and it's only making you miserable, so stop.”
Source : Cintra Wilson (2016). “A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Re-Examined As a Grotesque, Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations”, p.104, Wilberforce Codex
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“No man or woman born, coward or brave, can shun his destiny.”
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“Hikmah (Wisdom) is knowing when to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.”
Source : FaceBook post by Boonaa Mohammed from Sep 14, 2014