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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.
Laurie Anderson
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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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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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Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.
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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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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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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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I always feel like if someone has stage fright, I really try and say, Listen, these people want you to succeed, they want to have a good evening. They want to see something really great. They don't want to see something crappy. They don't. They want to be at something really special.
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Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.
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I realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.
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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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The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals.
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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
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Not many people care what you do. They care about what you do as much as you care about what they do. Think about it. Just exactly that much. You are not the center of the universe.
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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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The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.
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Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
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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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