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Laurie Anderson

"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."

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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."

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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."
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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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"I think women are excellent social critics."
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"The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage."
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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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"My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said."
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"My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-drawing to other people."
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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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"I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own."

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