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It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.
Laurie Anderson
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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
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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 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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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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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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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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My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.
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Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.
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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
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I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
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I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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All of nature talks to me - if I could just figure out what it's saying - trees are swinging in the breeze. They're talking to me. Insects are rubbing their legs together. They're all talking. They're talking to me.
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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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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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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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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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I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
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You can do great things with low-tech stuff.
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The world is a strange and wonderful place.
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So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.
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