Nan Goldin Quotes
My work shows the beauty in so many different kinds of people because I never photograph anyone who I don't think is beautiful. I never take an intentionally mean picture.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
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No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.
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I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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Apparently, Daniel Craig said I'd be a great Bond. Daniel, why did you say that? Dropped me right in it! What an honor it would be, but also, what an indication of change.
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.
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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
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It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.
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I write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things.
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All I wanted to do as a kid was go to the post-Oscar parties I was seeing on 'Entertainment Tonight.'
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In my case, I've always been interested in law enforcement. I've always dabbled in law enforcement in between gigs, quite honestly. Back before things really began to pop off for me, I would work in private security for companies and stuff.
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It's a maddening thing in itself to look at an old poem of yours. To translate it is even more maddening.
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Every photograph could be set up. If one could imagine it, one could set it up. The whole discussion is a way of not talking about photographs.
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My work shows the beauty in so many different kinds of people because I never photograph anyone who I don't think is beautiful. I never take an intentionally mean picture.
