Nan Goldin Quotes
In Paris now, when I walk into stores and the shopgirls literally say to me every time, "We don't have anything in your size".
Quotes to Explore
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
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I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.
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I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.
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Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
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A lot of my favourite books - I should say, not much happens in the books! It's much more about the points of view of the author more than anything else.
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I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
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London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.
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It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing.
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In Paris now, when I walk into stores and the shopgirls literally say to me every time, "We don't have anything in your size".
