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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 am a New Yorker, one I'm an artist, two I'm a woman, three.
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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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I realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.
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Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.
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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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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 see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.
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People who were born alone are defined by feelings like Who's gonna be with me when I die? Who will ever understand me? Will I always feel so alone? Maybe if I write a book... and you forget that that doesn't help you so much.
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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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You can do great things with low-tech stuff.
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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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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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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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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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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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