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The world is a strange and wonderful place.

Laurie Anderson

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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
Artist
Choreographer
Composer
Film Director
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Musician
Performance Artist
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Poet
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Television Producer
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Chicago
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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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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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
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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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The fewer expectations you have, the better.
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Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
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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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If I'm confused, I just spend some time looking at the sky and falling into it. It's not a meditation that anyone taught me, it's something I've done my whole life, and liked doing, and it made me feel like nothing.
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Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.
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I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
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I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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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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Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.
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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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I realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.
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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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I am a New Yorker, one I'm an artist, two I'm a woman, three.
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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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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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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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The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.
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