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" I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring. "
Laurie Anderson
Average
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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 job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-drawing to other people. "
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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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" My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said. "
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" I think women are excellent social critics. "
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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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" The problem with prototypes is they don't always work. "
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" You can do great things with low-tech stuff. "
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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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" 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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" As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America. "
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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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" 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
" 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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Only
Broadway
" 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
" 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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You
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" I hate zoos. "
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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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Regret
People
" 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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Doing
Easy
" The world is a strange and wonderful place. "
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World
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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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Woman
New
" 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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" 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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" 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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" A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire. "
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" I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky. "
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