Laurie Anderson Quotes
There are plenty of ways you can play the game of fighting and really seem to be fighting without going for the jugular.
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I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
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But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
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My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from Katherine and put it with his name, sort of to give me my dad's namesake. But it's hysterical how often it gets misspelled. I used to be like, 'No one capitalizes my D!'
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I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.
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I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.
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Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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I'm not trying to write a perfect record. I'm just trying to nail a moment in time.
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My mum is from Ghana, and she used to play highlife music in the house, and my dad used to listen to music.
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If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
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In Hollywood there's no real material. They would send me stuff, but I hadn't even seen the director. If I don't see the director's eyes, I'm not going. I'm not even going to pack my bags.
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It is quite plausible that the process of increased fragmentation of production across borders is subject to 'diminishing returns' and has its natural limits.
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I want Green Arrow to have fun. I don't want him to be a tortured hero. I mean, I've written plenty of tortured heroes, like Daredevil. But it's all there in Daredevil's origin as to why he'd be a tortured adult. Green Arrow doesn't have that kind of origin. In fact, he's such a clean slate that he doesn't even have an origin anymore.
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I write for women because it's the only way I can use what I've experienced. It's good that people like what I write, but I don't want to go down the feminist path.
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Anything that triggers good memories can't be all bad.
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A lot of my colleagues at school became great friends of mine.
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You do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.
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I love the sassy skinnies; that's what I usually wear.
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We consider ISIS and extremism to be a threat to all of us in the region. . . . Our position is that we help the legitimate governments in the region that have representation in the United Nations. We help the Iraqi government on their request through advisers; we help the Syrian government on their request to help with advisers to fight extremists. . . . So it's both lawful and legitimate.
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The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.
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I’m just a basketball player going out there and trying to get wins.
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There are plenty of ways you can play the game of fighting and really seem to be fighting without going for the jugular.
