Laurie Anderson Quotes
If you're a young artist, wondering what to call yourself, consider 'multimedia artist.' It's so vague. Then, no one can say, 'Hey, how come you're a jazz person, and you're making a pop opera?
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I just love vintage. I have far too many vintage dresses.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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With its imagination and large sales, Apple has become the world's most valuable IT company. However people are starting to have doubts regarding Apple's silence on heavy metal pollution problems.
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If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.
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Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
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Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.
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I don't think I have the assets to play the more traditional Bond Girl.
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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.
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Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.
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Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions.
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When I came back to power, Georgia was completely isolated on the international stage.
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I think people are looking for a president who has views and who sticks to those views. So, I think Governor Romney, Governor Perry, Governor Huntsman are all terrific candidates. I think we got a chance to elect a real, executive leader.
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The stuff I write I'm very proud of, but I'm smart enough to know I'll never get on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' next to Elvis Costello.
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Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.
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Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.
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I think any good artist - and I'm not saying that I am one - takes notes and should first emulate their heroes and then try to move beyond them.
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We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
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Before I had my child, animals were my life. I slept with four dogs in my bed.
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If you're a young artist, wondering what to call yourself, consider 'multimedia artist.' It's so vague. Then, no one can say, 'Hey, how come you're a jazz person, and you're making a pop opera?
