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" As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America. "
Laurie Anderson
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" I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex. "
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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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" The world is a strange and wonderful place. "
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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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" 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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" Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better. "
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" When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom! "
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" Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something. "
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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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" My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-drawing to other people. "
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" Something that has so much power must have life. Instruments have life. "
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" Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them. "
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" I'm a real workaholic. "
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" I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget. "
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" Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded. "
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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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" 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. "
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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've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior. "
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" The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage. "
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" I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called 'The Package', and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words. "
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" The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals. "
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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 so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work. "
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" I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it. "
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