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History is an angel being blown backwards into the future

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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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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.
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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.
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I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
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You can do great things with low-tech stuff.
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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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I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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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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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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So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.
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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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When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who’s broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we don’t know where we come from … we don’t know where we are.
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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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The fewer expectations you have, the better.
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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 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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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
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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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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 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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