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Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.

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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
Artist
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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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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Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
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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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If I'm confused, I just spend some time looking at the sky and falling into it. It's not a meditation that anyone taught me, it's something I've done my whole life, and liked doing, and it made me feel like nothing.
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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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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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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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My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
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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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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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We want to dedicate our music tonight to the great opportunity that we all have to begin to truly understand the events of the past few days and to act upon them with courage and with compassion as we make our plans to live in a completely new world.
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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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Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.
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I am a New Yorker, one I'm an artist, two I'm a woman, three.
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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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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
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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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Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
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I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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