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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
Artist
Choreographer
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Film Director
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Musician
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Chicago
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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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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Last night, I had that dream again. I dreamt I had to take a test, in a Dairy Queen, on another planet.
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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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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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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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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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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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I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
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I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
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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 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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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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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.
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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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Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.
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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
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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 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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