Nan Goldin Quotes
I'm not ashamed of my body and you know everything in the fashion world, if I was vulnerable to it, could drive me crazy. I think it produces so much self-hatred.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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Devo and The Cramps didn't get big until they went to New York City. Chrissie Hynde didn't get big until she moved to London. When I was growing up, there wasn't even a place to play - just one little bar. If we wanted to have a gig, then we had to drive 45 minutes up to Cleveland.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
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I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.
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I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.
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I wasn't a great debater.
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If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good.
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If it's independent, it's because I love it... 'cause they usually end up costing me money to do.
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Everyone has learned how to monetize music except the music industry.
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I was in college for two years but I didn´t attend too much. Then I decided to drop out. I was having too many nightmares about failing in the exams.
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Working at Pixar you learn the really honest, hard way of making a great movie, which is to surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you, much more talented than you, and incite constructive criticism; you'll get a much better movie out of it.
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I'm not ashamed of my body and you know everything in the fashion world, if I was vulnerable to it, could drive me crazy. I think it produces so much self-hatred.
