Laurie Anderson Quotes
Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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There's no such thing as easy, but it's easier when a script is good.
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My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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I always loved to read, and I wanted to be part of the project of literature. My physical longevity is due to luck, and my literary longevity is due to my physical longevity.
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It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.
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There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.
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Vacant heart, and hand, and eye,Easy live and quiet die.
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In response to a question about what 'keeps her up at night', I worry about the fact that in K-12 education I can look at your zip code and tell whether or not you're going to get a good education.
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Logician: A cat has four paws. Old Gentleman: My dog had four paws. Logician: Then it's a cat. Old Gentleman: So my dog is a cat? Logician: And the contrary is also true.
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It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.
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I grew up in the Bronx.
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I always had this fascination with superheroes. Who didn't love Hulk and Spider-Man?
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'… the situation was still too delicate for complete candor and the ultimate truth too unformed for statement.'
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I am truly sorry that a fowl of Canada is no longer with us.
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There are words which a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knows them to be false.
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In the treatment of the child the world foreshadows its own future and faith. All words and all thinking lead to the child, - to that vast immortality and wide sweep of infinite possibility which the child represents.
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It's the damage that we do and never know. It's the words that we don't say that scare me so.
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Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.
