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" I'm a real workaholic. "

Laurie Anderson

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" I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior. "

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" As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America. "

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" I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA. "

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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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" 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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" The world is a strange and wonderful place. "

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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 don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex. "

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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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" If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said. "

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