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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 don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.
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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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The fewer expectations you have, the better.
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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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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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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.
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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 know a lot of people who have weird specialties that are not taught in schools they're things that you learn in life.
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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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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
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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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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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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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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
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I'm a real workaholic.
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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 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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It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.
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