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Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
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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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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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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I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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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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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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Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
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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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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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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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The fewer expectations you have, the better.
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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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The world is a strange and wonderful place.
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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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So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.
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