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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
Artist
Choreographer
Composer
Film Director
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Musician
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Television Producer
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Chicago
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.
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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 right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.
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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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When you follow your thoughts and watch them attach to certain things, it makes certain things real and other things unreal, and you realize that this is all created by your mind.
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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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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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People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.
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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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The world is a strange and wonderful place.
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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 you're a young artist, wondering what to call yourself, consider 'multimedia artist.' It's so vague. Then, no one can say, 'Hey, how come you're a jazz person, and you're making a pop opera?
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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 realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.
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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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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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I know a lot of people who have weird specialties that are not taught in schools they're things that you learn in life.
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Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.
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Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.
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I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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