Nan Goldin Quotes
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.
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My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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I'm honestly all over the board. I think if I had to pick one, I'd probably say it's country first, but I listen to literally everything: country, pop, rock, rap.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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The advancement of technology has probably guided us more than anything else in one direction or another. I don't know, it's hard to say. We're so much more connected, but we've never been more fractured as a culture.
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Our leaders must hear us speaking on behalf of our brothers and sisters in South Sudan. If the moral duty to save lives and work toward peace is not compelling enough to drive decision-makers, we must remind them that we care and will hold them accountable.
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I only work with actors who take full responsibility for their characters.
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I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every culture. Hatred or hurt or pain isn't specific to a religion. I think it's a matter of acceptance. The one thing the world has to accept is everybody is different. What is normal to us is different and unusual to somebody else.
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If you share an office next to a guy for twenty years, and you like him and you're friends with him, it's hard to tell him that you think that his whole idea of how the universe works is completely wrong.
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My work is received more intelligently in Europe.
