I looked in the mirror and realized that I was already dead. I let you kill me one piece at a time, starting when I was, what? Eight years old? Nine? You killed yourself and then you came after us.


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The promoter called and said, 'What should we do?' People were calling to say they were sure it was ...
LAURIE ANDERSON
My son already knows how to program my phone. I think technology is good. ... They are learning the ...
LAURIE ANDERSON
The world is a strange and wonderful place.
LAURIE ANDERSON
When I was a teenager, I dreamed abbout escaping. I was lucky. I succeeded.
LAURIE ANDERSON
I see that it has huge benefits for us understanding how and why diversity changes over time and how...
LAURIE ANDERSON
When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when ...
LAURIE ANDERSON
One of the things I learned from working on the Olympics was, the world does not need another big mu...
LAURIE ANDERSON
When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who’s broken, ...
LAURIE ANDERSON
And there was a beautiful view,
But nobody could see.
'Cause everyone in the Island was sa...
LAURIE ANDERSON
My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've sa...
LAURIE ANDERSON
I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.
LAURIE ANDERSON
The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.
LAURIE ANDERSON
Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on va...
LAURIE ANDERSON
Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that y...
LAURIE ANDERSON
At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fant...
LAURIE ANDERSON
People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of...
LAURIE ANDERSON
I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky.
LAURIE ANDERSON
I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediate...
LAURIE ANDERSON
Both parties have had a chance to sit down and think about the situation and we believe that this is...
BENGT HALSE
Blessed are those to whom Easter is not a hunt...but a find; not a greeting...but a proclamation; no...
ANDERSON
It doesn't rain at all in California. Once a month, a man drives through spraying Evian.
HUGH LAURIE
That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it...
LAURIE LEE
Introverts are more effective leaders of proactive employees. When you have a creative, energetic wo...
LAURIE HELGOE
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking...
LAURIE HELGOE
There's a lot to love about America - freedom, the melting pot of diversity, individualism - all...
LAURIE HELGOE
When an introvert is quiet, don't assume he is depressed, snobbish or socially deficient.
LAURIE HELGOE
As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we&#...
HUGH LAURIE
I've been lucky enough to travel widely. When you're based in Europe, it's very easy to ...
LAURIE GRAHAM
I have but one rule at my table. You may leave your cabbage, but you'll sit still and behave unt...
LAURIE GRAHAM
It's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to make a blues ...
HUGH LAURIE
Friendship is not possible between two women, one of whom is very well dressed.
LAURIE COLWIN
Barely halfway back, exhaustion sets in. What if I don’t make it? An edge of panic gets intercepte...
LAURIE NADEL
It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that act...
HUGH LAURIE
To me, he's a hero, ... He's not polite. He's not someone you want to take home to meet your mother,...
HUGH LAURIE
I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love...
HUGH LAURIE
I feel when acting, I am sometimes overly self-conscious; I think, 'Going, no, don't, put yo...
HUGH LAURIE
I think there's a collective consciousness around the world that there are things beyond our con...
LAURIE HOLDEN
I wouldn't be able to act like Al Pacino or play the piano like Dr. John, But I could probably a...
HUGH LAURIE
I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too o...
HUGH LAURIE
If you really believe in what you're doing, work hard, take nothing personally and if something ...
LAURIE NOTARO
The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivit...
LAURIE COLWIN
The financing of all TV shows is dictated by finding an audience between 18 and 49. I have now passe...
HUGH LAURIE
I really, really, really want to do a silly romantic comedy where I can just have a crush on the guy...
LAURIE HOLDEN
I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which...
HUGH LAURIE
The strange thing - and this is one of the advantages of being incredibly shallow and superficial - ...
HUGH LAURIE
The thing about homebodies is that they can usually be found at home. I usually am, and I like to fe...
LAURIE COLWIN
I myself am not particularly interested in restaurant cooking. I don't really want to learn how ...
LAURIE COLWIN
I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook.
LAURIE COLWIN
As everyone knows, there is only one way to fry chicken correctly. Unfortunately, most people think ...
LAURIE COLWIN
The best way to feel at ease in the kitchen is to learn at someone's knee.
LAURIE COLWIN
My idea of a good time abroad is to visit someone's house and hang out, poking into their cupboa...
LAURIE COLWIN
Cooking is like anything else: some people have an inborn talent for it. Some become expert by pract...
LAURIE COLWIN
It is my opinion that Norman Rockwell and his ilk have done more to make already anxious people feel...
LAURIE COLWIN
When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries, bread and tea cakes, the English cannot be surpassed...
LAURIE COLWIN
I love to eat out, but even more, I love to eat in.
LAURIE COLWIN
Unlike some people who love to go out, I love to stay home.
LAURIE COLWIN
Somehow or other, I always end up in a kitchen feeding a crowd.
LAURIE COLWIN
Not everyone can write a book or paint a picture or write a symphony, but almost anyone can fall in ...
LAURIE COLWIN
It is not just the Great Works of mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what peo...
LAURIE COLWIN