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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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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 don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.
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Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
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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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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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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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The fewer expectations you have, the better.
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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'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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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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