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| • | "St. John, who lives on the Upper West Side, talks like a Paganini presto movement - fast and full of unexpeced twists and turns, which she punctuates with waves of her cigarette.", Time Out New York, Jul. 15-22, '99 |
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| • | "She arrives for a morning interview dressed in black, her eyes framed with dark eyeliner, sunglasses perched on top of her long, straight hair. She orders orange juice and lights a cigarette, explaining that she had been up late in the bar with some fellow musicians", Ottawa Citizen, Oct. 11, '99 |
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| • | "I was then told to go stand in line with the other 100 people whose luggage didn't make it. By now I had been 14 hours with no cigarette and I decided they could all go to hell. I sat on the luggage carousel and lit up - in full view of everyone. I was pleased to see that when I did so, about 20 other people started smoking as well. Naturally the security came over, asked who started it, and someone pointed to me, who was still sitting there enjoying myself. He asked me to come with him, that I was being arrested", larastjohn.com, Jun. '02
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| • | "a chain-smoking, iguana-loving musician", Toronto Globe & Mail, Aug. 10, '02 |
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| • | "Lara St. John is easy to talk to. A laid-back, 45-minute chat with the violinist covers a lot of topics - including her home country, Canada; her adopted city, New York; American xenophobia toward the French; smoking; friends; her far-ranging personal Web site; her love of marathon-sleep ... the teen took off on her own to Moscow. Russians smoke a lot of cigarettes, and St. John picked up a pack-a-day habit. She's tried to quit 'but it's just not time yet'", Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel, Apr. 20, '03 |
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| • | "a young woman who loves to speak of environmental issues yet is rumored to smoke sometimes", American Record Guide, Jan. 1, '04 |
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| • | "when we arrived at the theatre about 30 minutes early I saw someone outside in the back smoking. Having seen some pictures of St John I thought it might have been her. After she came out on stage a little later I was positive it had been her", Apr. 1, '07
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