As a kid, I spent a lot of my mental energy hiding who I was and attempting to fit in.
“As a kid, I spent a lot of my mental energy hiding who I was and attempting to fit in.”
— Arca · Attempting
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As a kid, I spent a lot of my mental energy hiding who I was and attempting to fit in.
“As a kid, I spent a lot of my mental energy hiding who I was and attempting to fit in.”
— Arca · Attempting
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“As a kid, I spent a lot of my mental energy hiding who I was and attempting to fit in.”
“It's not about living my life as a boy or a girl - but I'm also not trans - it's just that one day, you wake up feeling masculine, and one day, you wake up feeling feminine. The flickering in between those two states is what's most fertile for me.”
“Theatricality - that's where you get catharsis. The Greeks went to see drama because they felt like this wasn't happening to them.”
“I want to make music until I die.”
“We try and banish whole inner realms. Sometimes, you have to touch the thing inside you're most afraid of and see what happens when you touch it rather than look away from it all the time.”
“I feel like, a lot of times, you make music, and you don't really understand why until with hindsight.”
“In many parts of the country, like South India, people don't bother much about the nationalist passions that BJP was attempting to rouse for electoral benefits.”
“A major feature of life at the NIH in late 1960s was the extraordinary offering of evening courses for physicians attempting to become scientists as they neared thirty.”
“You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.”
“A leader who cobbles together his self-esteem by attempting to silence or libel his critics and by amplifying his echo chamber is a dangerous one indeed.”
“By the time you have your protagonist attempting to assassinate the Pope, you've sort of signaled that everything is on the table.”
“You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.”