Laurie Anderson Quotes
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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 wanted to impress people because I was kind of a kid who was lost in the crowd - was sort of my, feeling about childhood was being part of a big family.
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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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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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People who were born alone are defined by feelings like "Who's gonna be with me when I die? Who will ever understand me? Will I always feel so alone? Maybe if I write a book..." and you forget that that doesn't help you so much.
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I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love.
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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.
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I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.
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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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I realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.
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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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I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
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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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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'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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So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.
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My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.
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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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You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.
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I think women are excellent social critics.
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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.
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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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I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.
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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.