Laurie Anderson Quotes
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I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky.
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I always feel like if someone has stage fright, I really try and say, "Listen, these people want you to succeed, they want to have a good evening. They want to see something really great. They don't want to see something crappy. They don't. They want to be at something really special."
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Gut level is a good level to deal with life, and for me, I have to say that Buddhism makes sense for me because it's how I'm an artist.
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Art is about paying attention.
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Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.
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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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Some friends of mine work in an office. They were getting really nervous from their coffee breaks, so they started to have wig breaks. They tried on wigs for 15 minutes. They found this relaxing. So that's Wig Therapy.
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Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
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. . . I wrote a letter to Thomas Pynchon asking, Can I have your permission to try to make an [adaptation] of your book? And I had no idea that he would answer me, because he's pretty elusive. But he did send a letter back that said, Yes, you can do that - as long as the only instrument in the opera is a banjo. I thought, That's an interesting way of saying No.
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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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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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You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.
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If I'm confused, I just spend some time looking at the sky and falling into it. It's not a meditation that anyone taught me, it's something I've done my whole life, and liked doing, and it made me feel like nothing.
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I kind of didn't believe the doctors when they came over and they said you're not going to be able to walk again. I'm sorry to tell you this. I thought who is this guy? I just was so impatient with the whole thing. I knew I was going to walk again. I knew that I was going to do that.
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No single person who has ever lived will be able to tell you what happens. Period. Nobody's right and nobody's wrong.
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It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.
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I think women are excellent social critics.
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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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I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.
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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 know a lot of people who have weird specialties that are not taught in schools; they're things that you learn in life.
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I always wonder when people have any kind of spiritual and meditative practice especially if it's one designed in part to help them cope with things that seem unmanageable and to cope with something like death, if they're able to maintain that practice and maintain the equanimity at the time of death whether it's, you know, that person's or that person's loved one.
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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 didn't really understand that Vipassana is a relatively new form of Buddhism that was based on the storage of pain. So the idea is that every time you don't scream, that's your Buddhist side.
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I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.
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Books are the way the dead talk to the living.
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I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA.
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The audience creates its own personality, I've noticed, in the first five minutes. They will either be generous, funny, silly, withholding, academic, analytical, grudging. And I'm fascinated with how that gets constructed, because it happens right away.
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So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.
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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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