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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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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My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.
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To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
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Fly Heisenberg Airlines – we don’t know where we are, but we’re making damned good time.
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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The more time goes on, the closer I am to the ground. I've been exposed to so many issues and people living under different pressures. It's helped me realize that a lot of glamorous things that people prioritize really don't matter.
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Every adversity contains, at the same time, a seed of equivalent opportunity!
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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".
