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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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My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.
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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'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
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So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.
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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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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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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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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 trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
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The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.
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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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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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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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Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
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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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Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.
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Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.
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Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.
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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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