Nan Goldin Quotes
My life is more important. At this point in my life I'm alone. I don't think about it a lot.
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I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.
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I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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Excellence always sells.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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Everyone should change; otherwise, you can't grow as a person in life.
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I am the worlds laziest writer.
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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
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What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but it wasn't until I was practicing law that I really needed a creative outlet. I'd come home from long days at the office and draw, paint, and sculpt from clay, wire - even candy.
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It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.
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I know what labels and artists need, along with the consumer.
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We say primarily that the priority of this struggle is class. That Marx and Lenin and Che Guevara and Mao Tse-Tung, and anybody else who ever said or knew or practiced anything about revolution, always said that a revolution is a class struggle.
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If you believe, as I do believe, in reincarnation, they say that every time you come back, it's because you have to finish something. I've a funny feeling that my thing in this life is to have one relationship after another.
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If I could just make Westerns for the rest of my life, that's all I would do. It's my favorite movie to make. There's something about being a cowboy.
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For film and theater, you know how the story starts; you know how the story ends. With TV, you don't. It's literally like living real life in character.
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My life is more important. At this point in my life I'm alone. I don't think about it a lot.
