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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
Artist
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Chicago
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.
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I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.
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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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When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!
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So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.
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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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I am a New Yorker, one I'm an artist, two I'm a woman, three.
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Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.
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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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All of nature talks to me - if I could just figure out what it's saying - trees are swinging in the breeze. They're talking to me. Insects are rubbing their legs together. They're all talking. They're talking to me.
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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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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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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
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I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
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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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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 don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.
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You know the reason I love the stars is because we can't hurt them: we can't burn them, we can't melt them , we can't make them overflow, we can't flood them or burn them up—so we keep reacing for them
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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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