Laurie Anderson Quotes
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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A will finds a way.
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This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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When you feel totally alone in your thoughts and feelings, there's someone out there who is going through what you went through, even if it's the strangest, weirdest thing you could think of.
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Equipped with two cell phones - one for work and another for home - I like to think of myself as a kind of 21st-century digital pioneer, ready to network, fax, page, e-mail and - oh, yes - talk at will.
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I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.
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There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.
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I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole different angle... Rappers are going against each other, and it's more of a bragging, boasting thing.
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Common sense to one person might be something different to another.
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Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.
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Life can be a lot broader... when you realize one simple thing: And that is that everything around us that we call life was made up by people who were no smarter than you. And you can build your own life that other people can live in. So build a life. Don't live one. Build one. Find your opportunity, and always be sexy.
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My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
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My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.
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One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work.
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I just really allowed my muse to be my guide and I just go with whatever I'm feeling.
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I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA.
