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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
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at me.
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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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The fewer expectations you have, the better.
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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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Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.
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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 really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
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There are plenty of ways you can play the game of fighting and really seem to be fighting without going for the jugular.
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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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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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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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You can do great things with low-tech stuff.
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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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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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My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.
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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 think women are excellent social critics.
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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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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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