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You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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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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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 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 really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.
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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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Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.
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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 so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.
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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 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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I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
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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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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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Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
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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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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
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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'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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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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