Nan Goldin Quotes
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A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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I eat whatever I want, junk food included.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.
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In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.
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What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.
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If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.
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I was so scared of the water when I was little. I used to grab onto Mum's hand to get out of the pool. I did not even want to shower.
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I have a tweet that said, 'I want to be a Calvin Klein model,' and that was in 2011. And then I modeled for Calvin Klein. And then I had a tweet like, 'I wonder what it's like to be in front of thousands of fans,' and I've been in front of thousands of fans.
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If you are a researcher and want to publish a paper, if you are applying for money either from a private or public foundation, you have to have a DSM code.
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I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.
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I am not a political writer. I agree with Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, who are social writers. I can't write in that fashion. I am not good enough for that. What I am interested in is family dramas and why we are doing bad things to each other and what our motives are.
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I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.
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I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.
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It caused more problems as a young kid, because the simple process of perceiving words on a piece of paper was hard for me. Many people think dyslexic people see things backwards. They don't see things backwards.
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As much as technology has made me so much more efficient, enabling me to run a small but global company from where I happen to be, at times it feels like the technology is running me, as opposed to the other way round.
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If I do continue to do fashion, I would want to radicalise it.
