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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.

Laurie Anderson

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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
Artist
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Chicago
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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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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I am a New Yorker, one I'm an artist, two I'm a woman, three.
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I'm a real workaholic.
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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've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
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It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.
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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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