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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.

There are plenty of ways you can play the game of fighting and really seem to be fighting without going for the jugular.

As a New Yorker, I’m someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.

I’m an average enough person to point to the things I’ve gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.

I think women are excellent social critics.

Audiences, whether they’re seeing a film or a reading or whatever it is, a concert, they decide very quickly what kind of show it is, and then they judge it. They judge the rest of the thing by whether it conforms to their rules for what a good symphony orchestra would be.

Reading Quotes

No single person who has ever lived will be able to tell you what happens. Period. Nobody’s right and nobody’s wrong.

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!”

I think a lot of people in Washington are extremely suspicious of NASA.

When I was four, I was a kind of sky worshipper. I would look at the sky, and I wanted to evaporate into the sky – I loved the sky. I loved looking at the trees, just because they touched the sky.

I really trust audiences as having excellent taste, for the most part.

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.

We want to dedicate our music tonight to the great opportunity that we all have to begin to truly understand the events of the past few days and to act upon them with courage and with compassion as we make our plans to live in a completely new world.

It’s the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country – to get a better view.

I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist – I’m happy to see the work.

I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual.

That’s really a very different experience: You don’t have to look to be understood. You’re already understood.

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.

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

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

Firsts Quotes

My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.

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.

Your eyes. It’s a day’s worth of work to look into them.

I know a lot of people who have weird specialties that are not taught in schools; they’re things that you learn in life.

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.

The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.

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

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

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

My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That’s probably the most pretentious thing I’ve said.

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

I’m actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.

As an artist I’d choose the thing that’s beautiful more than the one that’s true.

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.

The audience creates its own personality, I’ve noticed, in the first five minutes. They will either be generous, funny, silly, withholding, academic, analytical, grudging. And I’m fascinated with how that gets constructed, because it happens right away.

Firsts Quotes

It’s good to take a longer view and think, what would I really like to do if I had no limitations whatsoever?

I’m not usually where I think I am. It’s kind of spooky.

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.

I wanted to impress people because I was kind of a kid who was lost in the crowd – was sort of my, feeling about childhood was being part of a big family.

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

The problem with prototypes is they don’t always work.

I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I’ve been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine. You do it, you try, you forget, you fail.

Firsts Quotes

The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist – that it’s a godlike thing. You are the ultimate authority. There is no other ultimate authority.

I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I’ve never been in an audience like that, and I’ve never seen it as a performer. Only in my dreams, in which case they are always throwing tomatoes and going, “This is the most boring thing I’ve ever seen.”

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.

I realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.

I am a New Yorker, one; I’m an artist, two; I’m a woman, three.

Some friends of mine work in an office. They were getting really nervous from their coffee breaks, so they started to have wig breaks. They tried on wigs for 15 minutes. They found this relaxing. So that’s Wig Therapy.

When you follow your thoughts and watch them attach to certain things, it makes certain things real and other things unreal, and you realize that this is all created by your mind.

My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.

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