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

Laurie Anderson

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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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" 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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" The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage. "

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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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" My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-drawing to other people. "

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Decision-Making

" 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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" 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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" You can do great things with low-tech stuff. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" The fewer expectations you have, the better. "

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

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" I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky. "

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" I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it. "

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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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" The problem with prototypes is they don't always work. "

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The Problem With

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

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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 women are excellent social critics. "

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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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" 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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" A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire. "

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" The world is a strange and wonderful place. "

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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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" 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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" 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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