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Laurie Anderson
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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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The world is a strange and wonderful place.
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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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Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
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I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
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All of nature talks to me - if I could just figure out what it's saying - trees are swinging in the breeze. They're talking to me. Insects are rubbing their legs together. They're all talking. They're talking to me.
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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.
Laurie Anderson
Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
Laurie Anderson
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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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.
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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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If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.
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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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I'm a real workaholic.
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I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I've never been in an audience like that, and I've never seen it as a performer. Only in my dreams, in which case they are always throwing tomatoes and going, This is the most boring thing I've ever seen.
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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 realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.
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I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.
Laurie Anderson
I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
Laurie Anderson
You can do great things with low-tech stuff.
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