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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.
Laurie Anderson
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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
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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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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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My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.
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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 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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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.
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I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I've never been in an audience like that, and I've never seen it as a performer. Only in my dreams, in which case they are always throwing tomatoes and going, This is the most boring thing I've ever seen.
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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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