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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.
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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Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.
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I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
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Not many people care what you do. They care about what you do as much as you care about what they do. Think about it. Just exactly that much. You are not the center of the universe.
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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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You can do great things with low-tech stuff.
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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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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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My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.
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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
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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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I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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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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It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.
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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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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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Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.
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