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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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I realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.
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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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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 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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Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
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You can do great things with low-tech stuff.
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Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
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I think women are excellent social critics.
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History is an angel being blown backwards into the future
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The fewer expectations you have, the better.
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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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We want to dedicate our music tonight to the great opportunity that we all have to begin to truly understand the events of the past few days and to act upon them with courage and with compassion as we make our plans to live in a completely new world.
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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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