Nan Goldin Quotes
My desire is to preserve the sense of people’s lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back.
Quotes to Explore
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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The U.S. and European markets have become mature, profit margins are lower, and equipment isn't so new. Because profits are relatively low, it limits the willingness of companies to invest in newer equipment.
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The only two characters I can play convincingly are myself and a dumber and sweeter version of myself.
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People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.
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You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.
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The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
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Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
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On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
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No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.
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I like 'My So-Called Life' and the 'Riot Grrl Movement' and 'Freaks and Geeks.'
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Great scientific contributions have been techniques.
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I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.
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I am shyer than most people think.
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Walking is pretty easy. You just have to be confident, like not caring. And honestly, people think about their walk too much, so they try to do something really interesting, but the designers hate it.
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Socialism is when government's taking care of you, you send all your money to the government, the government decides how to spend it instead of letting the people spend it and make all those decisions.
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My desire is to preserve the sense of people’s lives, to endow them with the strength and beauty I see in them. I want the people in my pictures to stare back.
