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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.
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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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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Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.
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Not many people care what you do. They care about what you do as much as you care about what they do. Think about it. Just exactly that much. You are not the center of the universe.
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Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
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Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
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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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The world is a strange and wonderful place.
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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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It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.
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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 think women are excellent social critics.
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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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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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I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
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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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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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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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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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My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.
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