Laurie Anderson Quotes
I am a New Yorker, one; I'm an artist, two; I'm a woman, three.
Laurie Anderson
Quotes to Explore
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
Natalie Maines
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Not to sound bad, but some girls are dumb. It's because they spend so much of their life trying to have the right look. On the other hand, some girls are just really smart. There are girls you can have conversations with that are healthy conversations. You can argue real life issues and solve problems together. That is what makes a woman sexy.
Wale
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
Tacitus
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I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.
Felicity Jones
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I want to make shoes that a woman can walk in. That's kind of what they're made for.
Edgardo Osorio
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I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.
Ian McShane
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No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.
Taylor Caldwell
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Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
iO Tillett Wright
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Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
Barry Humphries
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The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
D. H. Lawrence
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I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.
Callie Khouri
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I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'
Orson Welles
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I think every Muslim woman has to feel the world out for herself.
G. Willow Wilson
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We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in.
Vidal Sassoon
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I'm attracted to mysterious men. Every woman can relate to that, right?
Rachel Bilson
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Oscar Wilde
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Because human development is the most specific and exalted mission of woman, studies in anthropology and theory of pedagogy are essential in girls' education.
Edith Stein
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A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.
Mae West
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Thus the woman, who had perversely exceeded her proper bounds, is forced back to her own position. She had, indeed, previously been subject to her husband, but that was a liberal and gentle subjection; now, however, she is cast into servitude.
John Calvin
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I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.
Radha Mitchell
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No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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I am a New Yorker, one; I'm an artist, two; I'm a woman, three.
Laurie Anderson
