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My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.

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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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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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I realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.
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I'm a real workaholic.
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Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.
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The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals.
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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 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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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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When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who’s broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we don’t know where we come from … we don’t know where we are.
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History is an angel being blown backwards into the future
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I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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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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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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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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When I was four, I was a kind of sky worshipper. I would look at the sky, and I wanted to evaporate into the sky - I loved the sky. I loved looking at the trees, just because they touched the sky.
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You know, for every dollar a man makes a woman makes 63 cents. Now, fifty years ago that was 62 cents. So, with that kind of luck, it’ll be the year 3,888 before we make a buck.
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I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
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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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You can do great things with low-tech stuff.
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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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