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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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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
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Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
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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 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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Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.
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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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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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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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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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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
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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 world is a strange and wonderful place.
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History is an angel being blown backwards into the future
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Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.
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Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.
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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 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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You know, for every dollar a man makes a woman makes 63 cents. Now, fifty years ago that was 62 cents. So, with that kind of luck, it’ll be the year 3,888 before we make a buck.
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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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