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I am a New Yorker, one I'm an artist, two I'm a woman, three.

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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
Artist
Choreographer
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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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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I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
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When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!
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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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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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I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.
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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 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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You can do great things with low-tech stuff.
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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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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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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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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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The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist - that it's a godlike thing. You are the ultimate authority. There is no other ultimate authority.
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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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If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.
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When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who’s broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we don’t know where we come from … we don’t know where we are.
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I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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I'm a real workaholic.
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People who were born alone are defined by feelings like Who's gonna be with me when I die? Who will ever understand me? Will I always feel so alone? Maybe if I write a book... and you forget that that doesn't help you so much.
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