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So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.

Laurie Anderson

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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
Artist
Choreographer
Composer
Film Director
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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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Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
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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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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 artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.
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Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
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The fewer expectations you have, the better.
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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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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 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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I am a New Yorker, one I'm an artist, two I'm a woman, three.
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I think women are excellent social critics.
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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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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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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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