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.
- Laurie Anderson
Life, Find, About, Moby
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.
- Laurie Anderson
Graduation, New, Which, Fantastic
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
Art, Which, Declare, Hobby
When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!
- Laurie Anderson
Love, Always, Hi, Love Is
I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
- Laurie Anderson
Average, See, Gotten, Awe-Inspiring
I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex.
- Laurie Anderson
Wish, Differently, Would, Reminds
My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
- Laurie Anderson
Epic, Secret, Most, Pretentious
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.
- Laurie Anderson
Woman, Artist, New, Perspectives
My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-drawing to other people.
- Laurie Anderson
Leave, Other, Images, Decision-Making
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.
- Laurie Anderson
United, United States, Using, Electronic
The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.
- Laurie Anderson
Work, Problem, Always, Prototype
The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage.
- Laurie Anderson
Performance, Stage, Studio, Drag
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.
- Laurie Anderson
Suffering, Personal, Triumph, Despair
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.
- Laurie Anderson
Book, Package, Wrote, No Words
I think women are excellent social critics.
- Laurie Anderson
Women, Think, Critics, Women Are
I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.
- Laurie Anderson
Think, Kind, Like, Hear
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.
- Laurie Anderson
Like, Broadway, About, Musicals
I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.
- Laurie Anderson
Small, Think, Very, Adjust
One of the things I learned from working on the Olympics was, the world does not need another big multimedia show.
- Laurie Anderson
Big, Need, One Of The Things, Multimedia
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.
- Laurie Anderson
Very, About, Assumes, 19th-Century
I'm a real workaholic.
- Laurie Anderson
Real, Workaholic
It's good to take a longer view and think, What would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?
- Laurie Anderson
Think, Like, Whatsoever, Limitations
I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.
- Laurie Anderson
Pretty, Lot, Primordial, Snakes
I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA.
- Laurie Anderson
Think, NASA, Lot, Suspicious
If there are bases on the moon, that would be the end of the moon as we know it.
- Laurie Anderson
Moon, Know, Would, Bases
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
Kind, Will, Image, Translate
As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.
- Laurie Anderson
New, Looks, Across, Yorker
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
- Laurie Anderson
Better, Now, Like, Paradise
Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.
- Laurie Anderson
Art, Kind, Making, Wild
It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.
- Laurie Anderson
Work, Variety, Reasons, Wild
A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.
- Laurie Anderson
Doing, More, Production, Rut
Something that has so much power must have life. Instruments have life.
- Laurie Anderson
Power, Something, Must, Instruments
I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
- Laurie Anderson
Trying, Behavior, Been, Avoid
You can do great things with low-tech stuff.
- Laurie Anderson
Great, You, Things, Great Things
The fewer expectations you have, the better.
- Laurie Anderson
Better, You, Fewer, Expectations
A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.
- Laurie Anderson
Like, Confuse, Lot, Electricity
The world is a strange and wonderful place.
- Laurie Anderson
World, Wonderful, Place, Strange
I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky.
- Laurie Anderson
I Am, Think, I Think, Spooky
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.
- Laurie Anderson
Beginning, Regret, People, Stutter
I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.
- Laurie Anderson
Compliments, Always, Hang, Immediately
I hate zoos.
- Laurie Anderson
Hate
I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.
- Laurie Anderson
Work, Anybody, Tries, Artist
As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.
- Laurie Anderson
Beautiful, More, Than, Artist
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