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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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I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
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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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I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.
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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 a real workaholic.
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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 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 really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
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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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Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
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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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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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Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.
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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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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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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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I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
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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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