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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My brother is really, really slow.
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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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Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.
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I came to a clear conclusion, and it is a universal one: To live, to struggle, to be in love with life--in love with all life holds, joyful or sorrowful--is fulfillment. The fullness of life is open to all of us.
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I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine.
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The system decides you can't run schools in the summer.
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The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.
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Studies show that women seeking power tend to be punished for doing so, because it goes against cultural bias. Women are expected to be likeable and pliant. We are also trained to expect any success we attain to come to us through men - by pleasing men, as good employees, good partners.
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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.
