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

Laurie Anderson

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

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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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I'm a real workaholic.
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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 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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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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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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Audiences, whether they're seeing a film or a reading or whatever it is, a concert, they decide very quickly what kind of show it is, and then they judge it. They judge the rest of the thing by whether it conforms to their rules for what a good symphony orchestra would be.
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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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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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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've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
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So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.
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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 think illusion is one of the most interesting things that I've found to think about. Just look at yesterday, and what you were doing, and how important it was, and how nonexistent it is now! How dreamlike it is! Same thing with tomorrow. So where are we living?
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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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Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.
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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
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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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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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