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Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
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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My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
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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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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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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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I'm a real workaholic.
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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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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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The world is a strange and wonderful place.
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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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I think women are excellent social critics.
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Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.
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Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
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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 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 the reason I love the stars is because we can't hurt them: we can't burn them, we can't melt them , we can't make them overflow, we can't flood them or burn them up—so we keep reacing for them
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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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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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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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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 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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