Nan Goldin Quotes
The main thing that I want to say is that I don't think women are at their most beautiful in their adolescence or in their early 20s.
Quotes to Explore
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You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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Does 'Shooting Fish' have less artistic merit than a play like 'Angels In America,' which I did? Well, probably. But it's good for something.
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I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.
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Truth never pleads or compromises or wavers. It invites and awaits your acceptance.
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If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.
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I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
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I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
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You can make a hit song in 15 minutes. I don't know about someone else's song, but songs that people like of mine, I've created in 15 minutes or less.
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Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
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Some companies simply aren't meant to be bigger than they are. They provide products and services that satisfy their customers in a way that pays the bills, produces reasonable profits, and allows them to keep their people employed and fulfilled. And there's nothing whatsoever wrong with that.
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I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impressions to make friends at school. I would do them during recess. Maybe some of the kids thought I was being weird, but everyone seemed to have a good time.
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All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general.
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As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
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Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
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I think it's the most responsible thing you can do, to have kids. It's not something to be taken lightly. I don't have that gene that people have to replicate.
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With my first two husbands, I always kinda sensed they thought there was something wrong with me. Maybe I was too flighty or whatever.
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There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.
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The main thing that I want to say is that I don't think women are at their most beautiful in their adolescence or in their early 20s.
