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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. "
Laurie Anderson
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex. "
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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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" My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-drawing to other people. "
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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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" As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky. "
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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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" Something that has so much power must have life. Instruments have life. "
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" The fewer expectations you have, the better. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true. "
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" Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better. "
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