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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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Film Director
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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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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If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.
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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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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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I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
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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've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
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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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You know, for every dollar a man makes a woman makes 63 cents. Now, fifty years ago that was 62 cents. So, with that kind of luck, it’ll be the year 3,888 before we make a buck.
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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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When you follow your thoughts and watch them attach to certain things, it makes certain things real and other things unreal, and you realize that this is all created by your mind.
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It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.
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The world is a strange and wonderful place.
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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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Audiences, whether they're seeing a film or a reading or whatever it is, a concert, they decide very quickly what kind of show it is, and then they judge it. They judge the rest of the thing by whether it conforms to their rules for what a good symphony orchestra would be.
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Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
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I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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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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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
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I realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.
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