Laurie Anderson quotes - page 2

I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex. (Laurie Anderson)
I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget. View quote
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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. View quote
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If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it. View quote
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I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA. View quote
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I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it. View quote
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I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior. View quote
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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. View quote
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A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire. View quote
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The problem with prototypes is they don't always work. View quote
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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. (Laurie Anderson)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America. View quote
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I'm a real workaholic. View quote
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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. View quote
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And there was a beautiful view But nobody could see. Cause everybody on the island Was saying: Look at me! Look at me! (Laurie Anderson)
You know, I can see two tiny pictures of myself And there's one in each of your eyes. And they're doin' everything I do. Every time I light a cigarette, they light up theirs. I take a drink and I look in and they're drinkin' too. It's drivin' me crazy. It's drivin' me nuts. View quote
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They say that Heaven is like TV... a perfect little world, that doesn't really need you. View quote
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You can do bigger and bigger things. For what? View quote
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I hate zoos. View quote
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