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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.
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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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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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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I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
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I'm a real workaholic.
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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 really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.
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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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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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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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Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
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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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I am a New Yorker, one I'm an artist, two I'm a woman, three.
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So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.
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Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.
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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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My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.
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The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.
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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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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
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