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Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.

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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
Artist
Choreographer
Composer
Film Director
Inventor
Musician
Performance Artist
Photographer
Poet
Singer
Television Producer
Violinist
Chicago
Illinois
Laura Phillips Anderson
Shining
King
Kings
Love
Sings
Moonlight
Tender
Midnight

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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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I'm a real workaholic.
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When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who’s broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we don’t know where we come from … we don’t know where we are.
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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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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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I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
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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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I am a New Yorker, one I'm an artist, two I'm a woman, three.
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I know a lot of people who have weird specialties that are not taught in schools they're things that you learn in life.
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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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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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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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My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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All of nature talks to me - if I could just figure out what it's saying - trees are swinging in the breeze. They're talking to me. Insects are rubbing their legs together. They're all talking. They're talking to me.
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