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" I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex. "
Laurie Anderson
Sex
Wish
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" I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" You can do great things with low-tech stuff. "
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Great Things
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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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" 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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Special
Kind
" The problem with prototypes is they don't always work. "
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Work
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" Something that has so much power must have life. Instruments have life. "
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Must
Something
Life
" My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-drawing to other people. "
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Decision-Making
Leave
" 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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Style
Doing
Easy
" I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen. "
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Small
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" As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true. "
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Artist
More
True
" I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it. "
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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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Children
Book
Words
" It's good to take a longer view and think, What would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever? "
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Limitations
Good
Like
" 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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Money
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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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" Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better. "
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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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" I'm a real workaholic. "
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" People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for. "
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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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" 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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Good