Nan Goldin Quotes

I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends.

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• You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Important
  • Money
  • Success

• Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Love
  • Youth
  • To Love

• You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Independent
  • Movies

• I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Gift
  • Conscious
  • Curse

• My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Job
  • Speak

• You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Politics

• I don't aspire to have high approval ratings. I aspire, in light of my two predecessors, to be the most honest governor I can be. I'd rather focus on honesty than popularity.

  

  Pat Quinn
  • High
  • Light
  • Focus

• I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Country
  • Think
  • Song

• There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you're shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Work
  • Men
  • Long

• I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Teach
  • Guitar
  • Smoke

• I didn't really feel that there were any filler tracks on 'The Red Shoes,' but if I were to do that album now, I wouldn't make it so long.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Long
  • Red
  • Shoes

• Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Democracy
  • Criticism
  • Cheers

• I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Myself
  • Serious

• We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Better
  • Succeed
  • Concert

• I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Surprised
  • How
  • Depth

• You're only as good as your last haircut.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Good
  • Funny
  • Haircut

• There are lots of wonderful actors doing animated films these days, but I prefer it when you can't recognise them - it means they've really become the character.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Character
  • You
  • Doing

• The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Me
  • Myself

• I was on the improv team in high school, and after I graduated, I joined an improv company that had been established 10 years prior to me getting there. They did longform improv, and I fell in love with it. It's acting, character creation, collaborative, artistic expression and comedy - and it's scary. It was a big rush.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Character
  • Comedy
  • Creation

• The Qataris have cut off support for the most extreme elements of terrorist organizations.

  

  Joe Biden
  • Support

• Plenty of funds have fine long-term returns despite being tax-inefficient and generally costly. But a dirty secret is this: Average, no-load fund investors do much worse than the funds - or the market.

  

  Kenneth Fisher
  • Long
  • Dirty

• The first thing that attracts me to any script is the writing. If I find myself becoming lost in a good yarn, then I feel certain that others will, too.

  

  Anne-Marie Duff
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Lost

• By the time President Obama took office, Guantanamo was viewed internationally as a symbol of a counterterrorism approach that flouted our laws and strayed from our values, undercutting the perceived legitimacy - and therefore the effectiveness - of our efforts.

  

  John O. Brennan
  • Time

• I just get inspired to take a picture by the beauty and vulnerability of my friends.

  

  Nan Goldin
  • Friends
  • Picture
  • Inspired