Laurie Anderson Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
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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.
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I want to make shoes that a woman can walk in. That's kind of what they're made for.
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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.
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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.
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The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
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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.
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I think every Muslim woman has to feel the world out for herself.
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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.
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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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.
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In the middle of my sophomore year, I was sent to boarding school, at the Cranbrook School for boys, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where I fell in love with Marilyn Monroe. I knew that she was the most beautiful woman in the world, and yet she was in pain, in need. She was unhappy. I believed that I could help her.
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Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.
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We didn't have rest days or weekends because we had to get ready as fast as possible, so we could beat the Americans, who were also racing to send a woman into space.
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Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all the disbelief of those around you, deciding that you are a writer when you have no idea what a plot is or whether what you've written is any good, or anything.
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In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.
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I think the role of the Bond woman has changed so much over the years that it now doesn't follow a typical archetypical view. Before, it was very much a beautiful woman who didn't contribute much and who usually ended up getting killed or was arm candy for Bond. But now the women in a Bond movie have so much more to offer.
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If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully.
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My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.
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I'm moving around; doing stuff. I can walk. I can even run.
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I am a New Yorker, one; I'm an artist, two; I'm a woman, three.
