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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.

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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.
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What happens when you're in a crash is you join a crash club, and you talk endlessly about your crash because you don't want to bore your friends with it. And they've heard about the crash so many times.
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It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.
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The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist - that it's a godlike thing. You are the ultimate authority. There is no other ultimate authority.
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If you're a young artist, wondering what to call yourself, consider 'multimedia artist.' It's so vague. Then, no one can say, 'Hey, how come you're a jazz person, and you're making a pop opera?
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And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at me.
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My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
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People who were born alone are defined by feelings like Who's gonna be with me when I die? Who will ever understand me? Will I always feel so alone? Maybe if I write a book... and you forget that that doesn't help you so much.
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I'm a real workaholic.
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I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.
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When I was four, I was a kind of sky worshipper. I would look at the sky, and I wanted to evaporate into the sky - I loved the sky. I loved looking at the trees, just because they touched the sky.
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Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
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I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
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Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.
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Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded.
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I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.
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I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine. You do it, you try, you forget, you fail.
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So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.
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