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You can do great things with low-tech stuff.
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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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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My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
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I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I've never been in an audience like that, and I've never seen it as a performer. Only in my dreams, in which case they are always throwing tomatoes and going, This is the most boring thing I've ever seen.
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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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The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.
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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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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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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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The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals.
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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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If you're a young artist, wondering what to call yourself, consider 'multimedia artist.' It's so vague. Then, no one can say, 'Hey, how come you're a jazz person, and you're making a pop opera?
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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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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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Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.
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History is an angel being blown backwards into the future
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People who were born alone are defined by feelings like Who's gonna be with me when I die? Who will ever understand me? Will I always feel so alone? Maybe if I write a book... and you forget that that doesn't help you so much.
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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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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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There are plenty of ways you can play the game of fighting and really seem to be fighting without going for the jugular.
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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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