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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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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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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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Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
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The fewer expectations you have, the better.
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