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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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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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People who were born alone are defined by feelings like Who's gonna be with me when I die? Who will ever understand me? Will I always feel so alone? Maybe if I write a book... and you forget that that doesn't help you so much.
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When you follow your thoughts and watch them attach to certain things, it makes certain things real and other things unreal, and you realize that this is all created by your mind.
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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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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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It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.
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The world is a strange and wonderful place.
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Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.
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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'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
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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 don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.
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When I was four, I was a kind of sky worshipper. I would look at the sky, and I wanted to evaporate into the sky - I loved the sky. I loved looking at the trees, just because they touched the sky.
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You can do great things with low-tech stuff.
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I think illusion is one of the most interesting things that I've found to think about. Just look at yesterday, and what you were doing, and how important it was, and how nonexistent it is now! How dreamlike it is! Same thing with tomorrow. So where are we living?
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Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.
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If I'm confused, I just spend some time looking at the sky and falling into it. It's not a meditation that anyone taught me, it's something I've done my whole life, and liked doing, and it made me feel like nothing.
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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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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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Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.
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