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" If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it. "
Laurie Anderson
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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 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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" 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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" 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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" I hate zoos. "
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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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" 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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" Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better. "
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" You can do bigger and bigger things. For what? "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring. "
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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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