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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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I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
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I'm a real workaholic.
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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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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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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 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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The fewer expectations you have, the better.
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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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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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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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History is an angel being blown backwards into the future
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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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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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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
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You can do great things with low-tech stuff.
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I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
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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.
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Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
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