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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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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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I know a lot of people who have weird specialties that are not taught in schools they're things that you learn in life.
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It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.
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Life goes by so fast. It's really - and a lot of times things happen so fast you don't know - how should I react.
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When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who’s broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we don’t know where we come from … we don’t know where we are.
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Last night, I had that dream again. I dreamt I had to take a test, in a Dairy Queen, on another planet.
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I think illusion is one of the most interesting things that I've found to think about. Just look at yesterday, and what you were doing, and how important it was, and how nonexistent it is now! How dreamlike it is! Same thing with tomorrow. So where are we living?
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Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.
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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 you follow your thoughts and watch them attach to certain things, it makes certain things real and other things unreal, and you realize that this is all created by your mind.
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There are plenty of ways you can play the game of fighting and really seem to be fighting without going for the jugular.
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Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
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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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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
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If I'm confused, I just spend some time looking at the sky and falling into it. It's not a meditation that anyone taught me, it's something I've done my whole life, and liked doing, and it made me feel like nothing.
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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 fewer expectations you have, the better.
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Audiences, whether they're seeing a film or a reading or whatever it is, a concert, they decide very quickly what kind of show it is, and then they judge it. They judge the rest of the thing by whether it conforms to their rules for what a good symphony orchestra would be.
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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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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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Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
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