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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
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Musician
Performance Artist
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Poet
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Television Producer
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Chicago
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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Moonlight
Tender
Midnight
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So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.
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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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It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.
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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 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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The world is a strange and wonderful place.
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History is an angel being blown backwards into the future
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I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
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I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine. You do it, you try, you forget, you fail.
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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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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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