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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
Artist
Choreographer
Composer
Film Director
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Musician
Performance Artist
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Television Producer
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Chicago
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
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Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.
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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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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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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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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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There are plenty of ways you can play the game of fighting and really seem to be fighting without going for the jugular.
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I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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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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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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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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I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.
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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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It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.
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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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My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
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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 realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.
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