Nan Goldin Quotes
When I put my big retrospective together in '96 [for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York], I saw that there were all these pictures of people inside looking out. All these pictures of women in water and mirrors. I don't know what it means.
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
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I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.
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People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.
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Whether it's threats to Medicare, cuts in education spending, or Internet privacy, the ramifications got young people out to vote and should be enough to keep them involved in our political system.
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I go to Buzzfeed and 'Huff Po,' IMDB, 'Deadline.' And then I just Google myself, like 'Aasif Mandvi in a hat,' and see what comes up.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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Compliment is taken literally only by the savage. The accuracy of compliment is not that of algebra.
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People are dying to tell you their secrets; it's just a matter of getting the conversation going in the right direction. If you just let people fill the silence, they will let you the most extraordinary things. I sometimes wonder if afterward they remember what they've said.
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I just don't see why people are treated differently or with a different set of rules. It's just wrong.
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The Olympics are what I work for. They're why I spend so much time in the gym.
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The very quick and high sales of the book caught us off guard, but fortunately we got the second edition from the printers at the end of last week and the shops should now be stocked again.
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When I put my big retrospective together in '96 [for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York], I saw that there were all these pictures of people inside looking out. All these pictures of women in water and mirrors. I don't know what it means.
