Nan Goldin Quotes
Usually people just do their own work. But I want to deal with the place and what it means to show in a mental hospital.
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I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.
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I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our job as actors - so many people are working so hard, and even the littlest movie takes a lot of work.
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I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.
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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
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The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles.
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I'm not partial to any system, but at the same time, I'm a Korean actor, so I expect to work mainly on Korean projects.
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Weight training and working on being explosive helped me gain a few yards of pace. Even when I was small, I was stocky. Even if people pushed me, I managed to stay on my feet.
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When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.
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I was the one who was always calling people.
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There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.
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If people are talking about your movie and they're like, 'Yeah, it was ok' - that's the last reaction I would want! I would rather people would say, 'Oh, I hated it!' or 'I loved it!' rather than 'Oh, it's ok.'
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I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
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When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
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And whenever I'm in a situation where I'm wearing the same as 600 other people and doing the same thing as 600 other people, looking back, I always found ways to make myself different, whether it be having a red lining inside of my jacket, having red shoes, it hasn't changed.
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I definitely feel that society sets expectations for transgender people to fit in and makes us feel as if we have to dress a certain way so that we blend in with everyone else. But I believe all transgender individuals should be able to wear whatever they want and not worry about fitting in.
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I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.
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The Crosby family is sort of legendary for all of its traumas and familial problems, even though it has this appearance of being this perfect world. It had quite a dark side to it.
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Usually people just do their own work. But I want to deal with the place and what it means to show in a mental hospital.
