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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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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
Violinist
Chicago
Illinois
Laura Phillips Anderson
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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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It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.
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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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I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.
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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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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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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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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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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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Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.
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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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My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
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Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.
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When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!
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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 don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.
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People who were born alone are defined by feelings like Who's gonna be with me when I die? Who will ever understand me? Will I always feel so alone? Maybe if I write a book... and you forget that that doesn't help you so much.
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Don't be afraid of anyone. Imagine your life if you're not afraid of anyone.
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