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

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Nan Goldin
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: September 12
Photographer
Printmaker
Washington
District of Columbia
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I love all the Hollywood women. I saw all the films when I was a teenager. Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures.
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My life is more important. At this point in my life I'm alone. I don't think about it a lot.
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It's a hideous feeling to go round shopping and even feel like you are a freak.
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That's where I got the idea to paint the walls of the gallery with varied colours [at the Whitechapel show]. I tried to figure out how all these Renaissance paintings manage to work together.
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When I put my big retrospective together in '96 [for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York], I saw that there were all these pictures of people inside looking out. All these pictures of women in water and mirrors. I don't know what it means.
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I had said that when the first Bush got elected that I would leave the country. And when the second Bush wasn't even elected properly.
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If I say something honestly, generally, I am being completely honest and don't tell me I am lying. It drives me crazy to be told I set up my pictures. How does it benefit me to lie? I guess they are afraid to believe it and are afraid to look at it.
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American magazines are becoming very patriotic beyond belief to the point that I can't live there any more.
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I always thought if I photographed anyone or anything enough, I would never lose the person, I would never lose the memory, I would never lose the place. But the pictures show me how much I've lost.
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I never read theory. I think that was to my benefit.
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