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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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My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
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Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.
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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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History is an angel being blown backwards into the future
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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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I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
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Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
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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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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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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 realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.
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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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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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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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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've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
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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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You can do great things with low-tech stuff.
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