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Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.

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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.
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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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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 really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
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I am a New Yorker, one I'm an artist, two I'm a woman, three.
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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 don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.
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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 realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.
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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
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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 think women are excellent social critics.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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