Laurie Anderson Quotes
I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine. You do it, you try, you forget, you fail.
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My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.
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I kind of crave loneliness.
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I'm not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn't be insider-trading laws at all.
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In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
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When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your autograph?'
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I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.
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I remember being described often as 'the horrifically ugly Jack McCall,' and I kept thinking it took me about 10 seconds to get like that.
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The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.
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I can't ever see myself playing the romantic lead because that's not me; I'm not that girl.
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
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I'm not being really intelligent in my film choices; I'm just landing the opportunity when it comes.
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I'm not a huge fan of scary movies, but I love doing them because your character arc gets condensed, and everything is elevated, and so you kind of have this amazing opportunity to go in many different places.
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I'm not a big lingerie girl. I see it, and I love it, and I appreciate it, and sometimes I even buy it, and then it never gets worn. It just seems like kind of a wasted middle step. Either you're dressed or you're not. What is this in-between stuff?
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In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.
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I gotta do what I think is right, and if enough people like it, I'm a winner. And if they don't, I'll open a bookstore.
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I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
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We’re one team. One American family. When any member of our family is suffering, we’ve got to be there for each other. ... We have to keep on uniting as one team. As one people. As one nation.
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You never know what you're in for when you take a role. When you're reading the script, you're in some café in New York and you're loving life and it sounds great because it's like reading a book. When you step into that book and you actually have to play it out, for real, it's a totally different ball game.
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But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to conceal unbearable emotions for the sake of others.
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I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.
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I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine. You do it, you try, you forget, you fail.
