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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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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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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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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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I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine. You do it, you try, you forget, you fail.
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