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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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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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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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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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If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know 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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Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.
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I think women are excellent social critics.
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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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I'm a real workaholic.
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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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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
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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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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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I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.
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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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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 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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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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Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
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