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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.
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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I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
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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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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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Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.
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