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Laurie Anderson Quotes

Something that has so much power must have life. Instruments have life.

Laurie Anderson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: June 5, 1947

Topics

Life Power Something Must Much

I know I was a businessman for years, and I stayed up countless nights worrying about having to let one person go. It's a terrible thing to do.

Together Government Tea People Small

You can't win the Kentucky Derby unless you're on a thoroughbred.

Win You Kentucky Derby Unless

Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.

Good Happiness School Philosophy

The first sequel thing I wrote was this 'Forever Dawn' thing that will never get out, because it's horrid. But it's a really good outline for 'Breaking Dawn' - it's very similar. I knew what I was doing, which is good, because I think if I hadn't, there might have been a lot of pressure.

Stephenie Meyer

Good Think Dawn Pressure Doing Will

I don't wake up every day and just write to write. I only write with purpose.

Steven Van Zandt

Day Purpose Wake Up Every Day Write

One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghetto.

Stokely Carmichael

Struggle Racism People Organization

I saw a lot of children who were in the latest stages of malaria. Those kids died very quickly.

Children Saw Who Kids Those Stages

Melody's like tweezers that go into the infection and pull out the wounded part. You can almost not stay silent in the face of a melody that matches your emotion. You feel seen.

Face Feel You Go Silent Emotion

Acting's an odd profession for a young person; it's so extreme. You work, and the conditions are tough and the process is so immersive, and then it stops, and then there's nothing. So you have to find ways of making you feel productive when you're not actually producing anything. For a young person, that's really challenging.

Michelle Pfeiffer

Work Tough Process Feel You Acting

You can't look at the problem and say, 'I want them to do more, better, faster miracles - and not invest in research, not invest in development, and have those miracles delivered to me free.' It's unrealistic.

Me Research Free Better Problem You

We don't over-manage projects like the studios do.

Like Studios Projects

We should all miss bookstores. They let you discover things.

Christie Hefner

You Things Miss Discover Should

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