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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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If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.
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When you follow your thoughts and watch them attach to certain things, it makes certain things real and other things unreal, and you realize that this is all created by your mind.
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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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Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.
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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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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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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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Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.
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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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My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
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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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I think women are excellent social critics.
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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 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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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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I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
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Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
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I'm a real workaholic.
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Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
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