Laurie Anderson Quotes

The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.

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• The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Conscience
  • Worse
  • Active

• If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Game
  • Know
  • Better

• I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Soul
  • Single
  • Heaven

• There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • World
  • Doubt
  • Better

• I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Drummer
  • Set
  • Bedroom

• My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.

  

  Abraham A. Ribicoff
  • Father
  • Education
  • Poor

• Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Hope
  • Sometimes
  • Clothes

• I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Me
  • Never
  • Animal

• What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • She
  • Nature
  • Blessed

• I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Time
  • Kids

• You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Up
  • Different
  • Painting

• I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • God
  • Believe
  • Afraid

• I have deep emotions about the American people. If I were to cry for anything, I would cry for them and the policies that they're about to face.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • American
  • Deep

• I think the reason 'Sexy Beast' was so good was it wasn't just another run-of-the-mill gangster film; it was a love story.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Good
  • Love
  • Sexy

• I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I have a tendency to play with doors - between life and death, human and monster, mundane and magic - and with 'ADSOM,' I knew I wanted to play with the physical doors between worlds.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Life
  • World
  • Death

• You know someone is your favorite person when you've done a day of press, listened to yourself ad nauseam, listened to them tell every story, and when it ends, it's like, 'Are we going to eat something?'

  

  Laura Dern
  • Done
  • Day
  • Story

• Men are irrelevant.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Men
  • Irrelevant

• The automatic bread maker is not as good as breads made by hand, but waking up to the smell of fresh bread is worth the price of admission. We use it for fresh cinnamon raisin toast - mmmmmmm!

  

  Irma S. Rombauer
  • Up
  • Good
  • Hand

• We've achieved this historic progress through diplomacy, without resorting to another war in the Middle East. I want to also point out that by working with Iran on this nuclear deal, we were better able to address other issues.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Progress
  • Issues

• Some charities treat donors like cash machines. Until now there hasn't been any effective way for them to provide a more personal or interactive giving experience.

  

  Ben Rattray
  • Experience
  • Giving

• Hair and make-up always helps. I did always try to be well-groomed, professional at all times. Take your job seriously - but not yourself.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Up
  • Job
  • Hair

• In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Work
  • Real
  • Moon

• The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.

  

  Laurie Anderson
  • Work
  • Problem
  • Prototypes