Laurie Anderson Quotes
I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.Laurie Anderson
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
G. Willow Wilson -
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
Harold Pinter -
The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
Ike Skelton -
In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
Imelda May -
I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
Rachel True -
I don't look at myself as suffering.
A. J. Langer
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
Randall Munroe -
I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
Wayne Brady -
When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
Harrison Birtwistle -
I don't think anybody wants to see a dour 'Star Trek' movie.
Damon Lindelof -
It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
Ralph Nader -
The thing that I really love about film is that it is with you forever - it goes to your children, and they get to see it again and again and have it forever.
Tammy Blanchard
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I have always been a pretty big fan of ghost stories.
Otto Penzler -
When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
I can go into a restaurant; I might have to go a few times, taste something, love it and figure out exactly what is in there, and go home and duplicate it.
Tamala Jones -
At nine years old, I was presented an opportunity to move to Toronto to train for pairs dancing. As soon as I heard that that's what it entailed, I was out of there. It's like a past life. I hung up my skates and never looked back.
Rachel McAdams -
I nitpick details.
Adam Lambert -
There is those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves is a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman.
Kate DiCamillo
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I'm sorry that our country and the people do not consider the arts as vital to our well-being as, say, medicine. Suffering is unnecessary. It doesn't make you a better artist; it only makes you a hungry one. However, to me the acquisition of the craft of writing was worth any amount of suffering.
Rita Mae Brown -
Make the money, don't let the money make you.. Change the game, don't let the game change you
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
Without sounding too cliché, the Internet really is the birth of some kind of global mind.
Terence McKenna -
I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.
Laurie Anderson