Nan Goldin Quotes

I did [heroin] maybe when I was 18 but I got over that pretty quickly.

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• Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

  

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• I do all kinds of roles - nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho, nerd, psycho - and occasionally someone kind of normal. It's weird, when I lived in Austin I was always cast as pretty normal people. But when I moved to Los Angeles I was immediately branded a psycho.

  

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• I did [heroin] maybe when I was 18 but I got over that pretty quickly.

  

  Nan Goldin
  • Pretty
  • Heroin