Nan Goldin Quotes
I've got really prolific since I moved to Paris where I am living permanently, for the rest of my life, until I find another idea. I have really close women friends here: Valerie, Raymonde, not Joana so much, Maria Schneider, who was always a real heroine of mine who and has now become a close friend.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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I have more friends in New York than Paris.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.
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I've been working with Global Zero. They are a great organization leading the resistance against nuclear war and the elimination of nuclear weapons.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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I shall always be a priest of love.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
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I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.
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I think being open-minded about what Nature is trying to tell you is the key to being creative and successful.
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The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.
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The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.
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I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.
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I've got really prolific since I moved to Paris where I am living permanently, for the rest of my life, until I find another idea. I have really close women friends here: Valerie, Raymonde, not Joana so much, Maria Schneider, who was always a real heroine of mine who and has now become a close friend.
