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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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People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.
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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.
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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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I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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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 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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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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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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The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist - that it's a godlike thing. You are the ultimate authority. There is no other ultimate authority.
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The fewer expectations you have, the better.
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My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
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Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.
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What happens when you're in a crash is you join a crash club, and you talk endlessly about your crash because you don't want to bore your friends with it. And they've heard about the crash so many times.
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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
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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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The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.
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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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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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