Laurie Anderson Quotes
A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
Quotes to Explore
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There is more to life than show business.
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I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.
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I miss my family and friends from Cali a lot. I also miss late-night business hours, hiking in the Sierra Nevada, and house boating in Gold Country. But in Ohio, housing is cheaper, everything is green year-round, and we get glorious thunderstorms. In California, I lived in a place that was infested with black widow spiders.
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Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
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We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.
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I like being by myself.
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Yeah I grew up on the Westside of Detroit.
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Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.
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Societies evolve based on new understandings and new science and new appreciation of who we are.
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I think we have still to get to a place where we feel satisfied. We have this saying - 'In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king'. We are a little bit that way.
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You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'
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I don't have slim children. I have hearty ones.
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Nebraskans have very strong opinions, but we sit down around a table and we solve our problems.
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Just making a good movie is hard to do.
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I'm Italian, so I absorb other cultures through their food.
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Bill Hader does a really good impression of me.
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I actually love pressure. I loved playing sport at school in front of a crowd; I love being on stage in front of a big audience. I buzz off that.
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I am not a person to compromise on my priorities and family just for a show.
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Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.
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When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.
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When I played, I was an English-style centre-half. Always with my heart, always with my fighting spirit.
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What makes me write is the rhythm of the world around me - the rhythms of the language, of course, but also of the land, the wind, the sky, other lives. Before the words comes the rhythm - that seems to me to be of the essence.
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The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.
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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
