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I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
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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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
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Not many people care what you do. They care about what you do as much as you care about what they do. Think about it. Just exactly that much. You are not the center of the universe.
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Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.
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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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Last night, I had that dream again. I dreamt I had to take a test, in a Dairy Queen, on another planet.
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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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Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
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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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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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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.
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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 really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.
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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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I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.
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I know a lot of people who have weird specialties that are not taught in schools they're things that you learn in life.
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And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at me.
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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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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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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 realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.
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