Martin Parr Quotes
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My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.
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Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
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I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for women that is respected on television.
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In a zero corporate tax rate environment, if the private sector doesn't create tens of millions of jobs, then I don't know what it takes to create tens of millions of jobs.
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I think all girls secretly want to be actresses because acting seems so glamorous. But as a child, I was always the villager who had one line in the school play. I was shy and I had a bit of a lisp.
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Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.
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After studying art, I was a painter for a while and was asked to audition for a movie randomly. I hadn't thought of acting before that.
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Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.
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I love 'I Love Lucy,' and I have the DVD set of 'I Love Lucy.'
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Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.
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In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.
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To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.
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There's never a case of, 'Ooh, I touched a nerve there.' It's make believe.
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I try to research or make up for myself what happened in any character's life. From when he was born until the first page of the script. I fill in the blanks.
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No one will die because of bad acting. No one will die because you missed a cue. We're all human beings. If mistakes are made, you figure out that you're going to live.
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The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation.
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If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive. If a friendship makes me love Hugh more, then I can trust that friendship. If it thrusts itself between us, then it should be cut out, and quickly.
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Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once.
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I [give] maybe the long-winded speeches that not everybody reads, but I can also do a slow jam on Jimmy Fallon better than most.
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Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.
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I love the Sex Pistols. I'm a big Beach Boys fan and a huge Zeppelin and Queen fan.
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Taking photos is a form of collecting.
