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.

  

  Callie Khouri
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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?

  

  Sam Shepard
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  • Always

• Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.

  

  Valerie Plame
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• Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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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.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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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.

  

  Felicity Jones
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• No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
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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.

  

  Taylor Swift
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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.

  

  Eartha Kitt
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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.

  

  Larry Gagosian
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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.

  

  Doona Bae
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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.

  

  Eden Hazard
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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.

  

  Yves Behar
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• I was the one who was always calling people.

  

  Nancy Reagan
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• There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.

  

  Os Guinness
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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.'

  

  Caity Lotz
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• I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.

  

  Verite
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  • Music
  • Writing

• When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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  • Kind

• When I represent my country on the field, I do so with heartfelt gratitude to the people who fight for and defend our fundamental freedoms - to believe in whatever I want, to love whoever I want, and to be a valued member of society while doing so. That's the America I play for.

  

  Becky Sauerbrunn
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• I love Chicago.

  

  Abigail Breslin
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• Was there ever a nation on God's fair earth civilized from the bottom upward? Never; it is, ever was, and ever will be from the top downward that culture filters. The Talented Tenth rises and pulls all that are worth the saving up to their vantage ground.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
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• He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me.

  

  Lao Tzu
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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.

  

  Nan Goldin
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