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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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Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
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What happens when you're in a crash is you join a crash club, and you talk endlessly about your crash because you don't want to bore your friends with it. And they've heard about the crash so many times.
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When I was four, I was a kind of sky worshipper. I would look at the sky, and I wanted to evaporate into the sky - I loved the sky. I loved looking at the trees, just because they touched the sky.
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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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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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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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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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So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.
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And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at me.
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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 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 really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
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Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.
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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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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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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
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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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I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
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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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