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My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
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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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
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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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Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.
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Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.
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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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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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I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
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Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.
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The fewer expectations you have, the better.
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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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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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The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.
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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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I think women are excellent social critics.
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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
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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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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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I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
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Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
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