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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.
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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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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My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.
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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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The fewer expectations you have, the better.
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I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.
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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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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 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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Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
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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 can do great things with low-tech stuff.
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The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.
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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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I am a New Yorker, one I'm an artist, two I'm a woman, three.
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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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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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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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I'm a real workaholic.
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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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It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.
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