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" I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it. "
Laurie Anderson
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" I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior. "
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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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" I'm a real workaholic. "
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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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" The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage. "
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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 words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire. "
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