Laurie Anderson Quotes
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When I was four, I was a kind of sky worshipper. I would look at the sky, and I wanted to evaporate into the sky - I loved the sky. I loved looking at the trees, just because they touched the sky.
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I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.
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Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.
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Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.
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Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
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Art is about paying attention.
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That's really a very different experience: You don't have to look to be understood. You're already understood.
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Freedom is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.
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The world is a strange and wonderful place.
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If I'm confused, I just spend some time looking at the sky and falling into it. It's not a meditation that anyone taught me, it's something I've done my whole life, and liked doing, and it made me feel like nothing.
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People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.
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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
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I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I've never been in an audience like that, and I've never seen it as a performer. Only in my dreams, in which case they are always throwing tomatoes and going, "This is the most boring thing I've ever seen."
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The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.
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Some friends of mine work in an office. They were getting really nervous from their coffee breaks, so they started to have wig breaks. They tried on wigs for 15 minutes. They found this relaxing. So that's Wig Therapy.
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I think illusion is one of the most interesting things that I've found to think about. Just look at yesterday, and what you were doing, and how important it was, and how nonexistent it is now! How dreamlike it is! Same thing with tomorrow. So where are we living?
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My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.
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I'm thrilled by the fact that I made something out of nothing. There it is! It wasn't there before: there it is - I made it! That's pretty powerful, and that's the power that Buddhists give to every single person.
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I didn't really understand that Vipassana is a relatively new form of Buddhism that was based on the storage of pain. So the idea is that every time you don't scream, that's your Buddhist side.
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All of nature talks to me - if I could just figure out what it's saying - trees are swinging in the breeze. They're talking to me. Insects are rubbing their legs together. They're all talking. They're talking to me.
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At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.
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What happens when you're in a crash is you join a crash club, and you talk endlessly about your crash because you don't want to bore your friends with it. And they've heard about the crash so many times.
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A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.