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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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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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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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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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The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.
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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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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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My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.
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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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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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I think women are excellent social critics.
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If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know 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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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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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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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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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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I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
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The fewer expectations you have, the better.
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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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I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
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Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.
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