Laurie Anderson Quotes
Not many people care what you do. They care about what you do as much as you care about what they do. Think about it. Just exactly that much. You are not the center of the universe.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.
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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it's a balance. And our job as actors is empathy.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
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I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.
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We can't all be like Ryan Seacrest... the perfect platform manifestation of a human. I don't know if we all have those gifts for restraining our emotions... or whatever it is he does.
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You have to try to grow between every fight: get back in the gym and keep working hard and find the areas that you need to work on. See what you did wrong and work on it.
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I've never taken myself too seriously.
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At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.
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Reminding myself that listening is just as important a creative act as thinking is key for me.
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... alas! in the exercise of the arts, industry scarce bears the name of merit.
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A lot of foreign people say, when asking about eating habits, 'What is your guilty pleasure?' I have no guilt. Whatever I do, I enjoy and it's the point. I think if you start to feel guilty about it, that's a problem. So, no guilty pleasures. I have pleasure and no guilt at all.
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You only have to pick up a paper to see the sort of scams and injustices that are out there. There's a sense that people don't belong and just aren't very happy. They're outraged, in fact, and they're being shafted left, right and centre.
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Not many people care what you do. They care about what you do as much as you care about what they do. Think about it. Just exactly that much. You are not the center of the universe.
