Nan Goldin Quotes
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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Some people might not like him because he's my son. But be respectful, go out there and enjoy the game.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
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I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.
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It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.
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I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
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We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.
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Growing up in Dumfries, I got no sun - I spent all my time in my room making records. When I came to America, it made me recognise the benefits of sunlight. Oh, and I also got a good haircut. I used to have a terrible haircut.
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Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.
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I like it when I can hear directly from the writer: what they're seeing, what they're envisioning, and what their intention is.
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Disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror.
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I have no idea why one of our most original filmmakers would want to spend two years of his life translating someone else's movie from Spanish into English. And it wasn't such a good film in Spanish, either.
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During the seven years that I worked as a management consultant, I spent a lot of time trying to look older than I was. I became pretty good at furrowing my brow and putting on somber expressions.
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I did [heroin] maybe when I was 18 but I got over that pretty quickly.
