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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. "
Laurie Anderson
I See
Woman
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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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" Something that has so much power must have life. Instruments have life. "
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" People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret. "
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" The problem with prototypes is they don't always work. "
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" I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex. "
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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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Kind
" 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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" 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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" 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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" You can do great things with low-tech stuff. "
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Stuff
Great Things
Great
" 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 hate zoos. "
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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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Average
Enough
Person
" 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
Never
You
" 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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Technology
Say
Work
" If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it. "
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Know
Moon
Would
" As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America. "
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Island
New
Looks
" The world is a strange and wonderful place. "
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Place
World
Strange
" 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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You
Thinking
New York
" My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-drawing to other people. "
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People
Decision-Making
Leave
" I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA. "
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Think
Washington
I Think
" My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said. "
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Said
Dream
Write
" The fewer expectations you have, the better. "
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Expectations
You
Fewer
" 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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Bear
Only
Broadway
" 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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Mom
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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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Like
Electricity
" One of the things I learned from working on the Olympics was, the world does not need another big multimedia show. "
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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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Miracle
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