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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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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.
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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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The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist - that it's a godlike thing. You are the ultimate authority. There is no other ultimate authority.
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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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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'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
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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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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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The fewer expectations you have, the better.
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I think women are excellent social critics.
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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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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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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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The world is a strange and wonderful place.
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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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Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
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I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
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When you follow your thoughts and watch them attach to certain things, it makes certain things real and other things unreal, and you realize that this is all created by your mind.
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We want to dedicate our music tonight to the great opportunity that we all have to begin to truly understand the events of the past few days and to act upon them with courage and with compassion as we make our plans to live in a completely new world.
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Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
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