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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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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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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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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
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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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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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It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.
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You know the reason I love the stars is because we can't hurt them: we can't burn them, we can't melt them , we can't make them overflow, we can't flood them or burn them up—so we keep reacing for them
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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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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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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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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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Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.
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When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!
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Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
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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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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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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
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