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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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If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.
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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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I think women are excellent social critics.
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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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You can do great things with low-tech stuff.
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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.
Laurie Anderson
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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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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Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
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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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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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You know the reason I love the stars is because we can't hurt them: we can't burn them, we can't melt them , we can't make them overflow, we can't flood them or burn them up—so we keep reacing for them
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The fewer expectations you have, the better.
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Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
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I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
Laurie Anderson
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'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
Laurie Anderson
My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.
Laurie Anderson
I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.
Laurie Anderson