Laurie Anderson Quotes - Page 4

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• I'm a real workaholic.

  Laurie Anderson

  Real, Workaholic

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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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  Appreciation, Artist, Appreciate

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• Shining in the midnight moonlight, while the King sings love me tender.

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  Kings, Shining, Midnight

  RoseLee Goldberg, Laurie Anderson (2000). “Laurie Anderson”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

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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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  Art, Mean, Thinking

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• Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.

  Laurie Anderson

  Artist, God Complex, Godlike

  The Believer Interview, www.believermag.com. January, 2012.

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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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  Trying, Kind, Forget

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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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  Buddhist, Pain, Buddhism

  Interview with A. M. Homes, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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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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  Sorry, Believe, Doctors

  "Laurie Anderson Reflects On Life And Loss In 'Heart Of A Dog'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 19, 2015.

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

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  Snakes, Written

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• What happens when you're in a crash is you join a crash club, and you talk endlessly about your crash because you don't want to bore your friends with it. And they've heard about the crash so many times.

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  Clubs, Want, Crash

  "Laurie Anderson Reflects On Life And Loss In 'Heart Of A Dog'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 19, 2015.

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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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  Spiritual, Practice, People

  "Laurie Anderson Reflects On Life And Loss In 'Heart Of A Dog'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 19, 2015.

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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.

  Laurie Anderson

  Buddhism, Artist, Levels

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Life goes by so fast. It's really - and a lot of times things happen so fast you don't know - how should I react.

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  Should, Know How, Happens

  "Laurie Anderson Reflects On Life And Loss In 'Heart Of A Dog'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 19, 2015.

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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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  Inspiring, Fear, Average

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• When love is gone, there's always justice.

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  Love Is, Justice, Gone

  Song: O Superman

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• I think women are excellent social critics.

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  Thinking, Excellent, Social

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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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  Country, Views, Order

  Interview with A.M. Homes, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.

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  Art, World, Engaged

  Interview with A. M. Homes, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• I'm thrilled by the fact that I made something out of nothing. There it is! It wasn't there before: there it is - I made it! That's pretty powerful, and that's the power that Buddhists give to every single person.

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  Buddhist, Powerful, Giving

  The Believer Interview, www.believermag.com. January, 2012.

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• If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.

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  Moon, Would Be, Ends

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• People who were born alone are defined by feelings like "Who's gonna be with me when I die? Who will ever understand me? Will I always feel so alone? Maybe if I write a book..." and you forget that that doesn't help you so much.

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  Book, Writing, People

  The Believer Interview, www.believermag.com. January, 2012.

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

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  Inspirational, Dance, Sex

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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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  Ideas, Electricity

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• I'm one of the first Americans who wasn't a torturer or an interrogator.

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  Firsts

  Interview with A.M. Homes, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 03, 2015.

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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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  Islands, America, Looks

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