Laurie Anderson Quotes
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I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.
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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
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Audiences, whether they're seeing a film or a reading or whatever it is, a concert, they decide very quickly what kind of show it is, and then they judge it. They judge the rest of the thing by whether it conforms to their rules for what a good symphony orchestra would be.
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You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.
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I kind of didn't believe the doctors when they came over and they said you're not going to be able to walk again. I'm sorry to tell you this. I thought who is this guy? I just was so impatient with the whole thing. I knew I was going to walk again. I knew that I was going to do that.
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I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
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They say that Heaven is like TV... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you.
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I think women are excellent social critics.
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It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.
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No single person who has ever lived will be able to tell you what happens. Period. Nobody's right and nobody's wrong.
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I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.
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My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
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A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that.
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If you're a young artist, wondering what to call yourself, consider 'multimedia artist.' It's so vague. Then, no one can say, 'Hey, how come you're a jazz person, and you're making a pop opera?
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You know the reason I love the stars is because we can't hurt them: we can't burn them, we can't melt them , we can't make them overflow, we can't flood them or burn them up—so we keep reacing for them
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I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.
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So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.
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Life goes by so fast. It's really - and a lot of times things happen so fast you don't know - how should I react.
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When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who’s broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we don’t know where we come from … we don’t know where we are.
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It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.
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I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
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And there was a beutiful view But nobody could see Cause everybody on the island Was saying Look at me! Look at me.
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Last night, I had that dream again. I dreamt I had to take a test, in a Dairy Queen, on another planet.