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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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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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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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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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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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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
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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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I am a New Yorker, one I'm an artist, two I'm a woman, three.
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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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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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If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.
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When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who’s broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we don’t know where we come from … we don’t know where we are.
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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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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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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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My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
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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 really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.
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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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Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
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I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.
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