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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. "

Laurie Anderson

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" 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 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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" As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true. "

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" I think women are excellent social critics. "

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

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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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" Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better. "

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

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" Something that has so much power must have life. Instruments have life. "

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

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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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" I'm a real workaholic. "

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" I hate zoos. "

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

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

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

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

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