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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.
Laurie Anderson
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Laurie Anderson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 5
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Laura Phillips Anderson
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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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You can do great things with low-tech stuff.
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I'm a real workaholic.
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I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
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I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
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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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So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.
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The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.
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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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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 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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