Nan Goldin Quotes
I usually work really instinctively and it's afterwards that I think about what it means. I don't know consciously that I have these themes that run through my work.
Quotes to Explore
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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to understand was very important. When I was young, I was aware of the fact that much of the time, the reasons a person gave for his actions were not the actual reasons.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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I feel like, when I'm 100% healthy, I can do anything.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
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I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough.
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You don't burn out from going too fast. You burn out from going too slow and getting bored.
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I usually work really instinctively and it's afterwards that I think about what it means. I don't know consciously that I have these themes that run through my work.
