Laurie Anderson Quotes
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 always try to keep a little bit of space in the year to work with other people. Because I love doing musicals, films and plays - projects where I'm not in charge, where I've got somebody else telling me what to do and I have to work with their vision.
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We want to encourage people to talk to one another.
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Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have.
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I like risky stuff.
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Max Minghella is a very close friend of mine, and I talk to him regularly.
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Some of the stuff that Wilmer wears is bad. And Debra Jo.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It's very intense stuff.
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I don't ever want to do stuff just for the sake of it.
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Well, it'd certainly be fascinating if we discovered that gays were better at being married than heterosexuals are. Talk about irony.
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I can talk a lot and not reveal anything; I would make a great politician.
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I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.
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The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.
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I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.
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I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.
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We go around and talk about what are each of the kids most proud of from the previous week.
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I transitioned into theater and acting when I was about 9, community theater and musicals, being, like, chorus-kid-number-78 or whatever. But I just loved it. As a kid you just crave attention, and early on I just felt it was so cool and fun to play around and have people clap for me. But eventually I grew up and fell deeper into it.
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Artists talk in 'art speak.'
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The stuff that works best is driven by passion rather than dollars.
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For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.
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I never think of yesterday. Can't do anything about it.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away. They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless. I've been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That's the stuff my dreams are made of.
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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.
