Laurie Anderson Quotes
They say that Heaven is like TV... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.
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Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.
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I saw 'The Devil Wears Prada.' I don't think it's a reality.
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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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Bono told me how to dance in high heels and he also told me about U2's Glastonbury performance and how everything that could have possibly gone wrong went wrong, including him ripping his trousers on stage. I think he was lunging and his trousers ripped! He was telling me how he had to find a new way of performing that didn't involve moving.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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Meditation helps me to calm down.
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Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
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The entire intelligence community is so bloated and so reliant on contractors. There's no question there's many tasks that make sense to outsource, and yet, we have followed blindly this dogma that if it's private contracting, it must be better.
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I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother said, 'Be a chef,' and my dad said, 'Be a lawyer.' But instead, I auditioned for N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts.
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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
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I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.
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I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.
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Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
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The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out. To have genuine empathy, not as a make-nice tool but as an understanding, is essential to the next step.
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It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.
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I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five.
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I entered politics from a completely different background from other people in this field, and that has helped me to see and deal with things differently.
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If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in heaven now.' That's my favorite joke.
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They say that Heaven is like TV... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.
