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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If someone has been bad to me, I believe in being good to that person. It's my way of getting back. Because that person is going to feel guilty about it.
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I started my career in the U.S. military. Traditionally, in the military... you either start with a technical background or a more leadership-focused one. I took the leadership path.
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There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.
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I am from Pomona, California. I was born in Los Angeles.
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It is in that which you love the most that you find the greatest tests.
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If I do continue to do fashion, I would want to radicalise it.
