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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
Composer
Film Director
Inventor
Musician
Performance Artist
Photographer
Poet
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Television Producer
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Chicago
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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Yorker
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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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Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
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I'm a real workaholic.
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Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
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You know the reason I love the stars is because we can't hurt them: we can't burn them, we can't melt them , we can't make them overflow, we can't flood them or burn them up—so we keep reacing for them
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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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My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.
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Not many people care what you do. They care about what you do as much as you care about what they do. Think about it. Just exactly that much. You are not the center of the universe.
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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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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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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
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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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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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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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History is an angel being blown backwards into the future
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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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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
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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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The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.
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Last night, I had that dream again. I dreamt I had to take a test, in a Dairy Queen, on another planet.
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