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Laurie Anderson

Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson (born June 5, 1947) is an American avant-garde artist, composer, musician and film director whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects. Initially trained in violin and sculpting, Anderson pursued a variety of performance art projects in New York during the 1970s, focusing particularly on language, technology, and visual imagery. She became more widely known outside the art world when her single "O Superman" reached number two on the UK pop charts in 1981. She also starred in and directed the 1986 concert film Home of the Brave.

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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.

Able, Period, Periods, Single, Single Person, Tell

Dogs don't just like us, they love us, and they admire us. The big reason they admire us is we invented cars. They're like, "Yes, we get to go somewhere!" Go somewhere faster, with their head out the window, and their ears, like, "Yes! Yes!"

Big, Car, Cars, Dog, Ears, Yes

It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.

Crazy, Madness, Miracle, Things, Variety, Work

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

Avoid, Behavior, Goal, Trying

. . . 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.

Book, Ideas, Long, Permission, Pretty, Yes You Can

I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.

Forget, Hang, Kind, Shuffle, Trying

I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.

Artist, Artists, Capability, Screen, Small, Thinking

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.

Art, Count, Declare, Hobbies, Irs, Told

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.

Book, Children, Story, Writing, Wrote

The fewer expectations you have, the better.

Expectations, Fewer

You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.

Actually, Being Sad, Master, Needs, Sad, Trying

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.

Buddhist, Powerful, Giving, Person, Give, Thrilled

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

Americans, Firsts, Interrogator, Torturer

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.

Despair, People, Suffering, Triumph, Working

So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.

Happened, Life, Phobic, Things

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.

Broadway, Hate, Like, Stuff

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. "

People, Say, See, Special, Stage, Trying

You know, for every dollar a man makes a woman makes 63 cents. Now, fifty years ago that was 62 cents. So, with that kind of luck, it’ll be the year 3,888 before we make a buck.

Luck, Make, Man, Men, Woman, Years

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.

Details, Know, Knows, Life, Wanted, Whaling

All of nature talks to me - if I could just figure out what it's saying - trees are swinging in the breeze. They're talking to me. Insects are rubbing their legs together. They're all talking. They're talking to me.

Breeze, Rubbing, Saying, Talking, Together, Tree

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