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I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.

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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The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist - that it's a godlike thing. You are the ultimate authority. There is no other ultimate authority.
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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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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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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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Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.
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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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I think women are excellent social critics.
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I am a New Yorker, one I'm an artist, two I'm a woman, three.
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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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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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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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All of nature talks to me - if I could just figure out what it's saying - trees are swinging in the breeze. They're talking to me. Insects are rubbing their legs together. They're all talking. They're talking to me.
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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
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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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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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The fewer expectations you have, the better.
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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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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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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 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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