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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.

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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 think women are excellent social critics.
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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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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 genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I've never been in an audience like that, and I've never seen it as a performer. Only in my dreams, in which case they are always throwing tomatoes and going, This is the most boring thing I've ever seen.
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I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.
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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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Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
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Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.
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Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.
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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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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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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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I realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.
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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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If you're a young artist, wondering what to call yourself, consider 'multimedia artist.' It's so vague. Then, no one can say, 'Hey, how come you're a jazz person, and you're making a pop opera?
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