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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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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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Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
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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 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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The fewer expectations you have, the better.
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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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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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If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.
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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
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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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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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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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My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.
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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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The world is a strange and wonderful place.
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You can do great things with low-tech stuff.
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