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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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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Last night, I had that dream again. I dreamt I had to take a test, in a Dairy Queen, on another planet.
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I am a New Yorker, one I'm an artist, two I'm a woman, three.
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You can do great things with low-tech stuff.
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I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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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 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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You know, for every dollar a man makes a woman makes 63 cents. Now, fifty years ago that was 62 cents. So, with that kind of luck, it’ll be the year 3,888 before we make a buck.
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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 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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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've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
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The fewer expectations you have, the better.
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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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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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There are plenty of ways you can play the game of fighting and really seem to be fighting without going for the jugular.
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Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.
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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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