Martin Parr Quotes

Taking photos is a form of collecting.

Martin Parr

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• My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

  

  Walead Beshty
  • Look
  • Images
  • Material

• 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.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • Life
  • Work
  • Rest

• Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Death
  • Everything
  • Authority

• I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for women that is respected on television.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Women
  • Think
  • Television

• 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.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Know
  • Environment
  • Tax

• 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.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • School
  • Child
  • Acting

• 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.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Art
  • Movie
  • Thought

• Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Time
  • Long
  • Human

• I love 'I Love Lucy,' and I have the DVD set of 'I Love Lucy.'

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Love
  • I Love
  • DVD

• Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • You
  • Fear
  • Wrong

• In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Age
  • Play
  • Mom

• 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.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Talk
  • Almost
  • Idle

• There's never a case of, 'Ooh, I touched a nerve there.' It's make believe.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Believe
  • Never
  • Touched

• 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.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Character

• 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.

  

  Kate Baldwin
  • Live
  • Bad
  • Die

• The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation.

  

  Patricia McCormick
  • Power
  • Free
  • Situation

• It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Book
  • Simple
  • Apology

• Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, 'that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.'

  

  John Adams
  • Men
  • America
  • Free

• I don't look anything like my mother, except when I'm Lafayette. I look like my father.

  

  Nelsan Ellis
  • Mother
  • Father

• Actors travel a lot and work long hours, and sometimes you eat at odd hours, so I have to work out to keep my weight at the same level.

  

  Sibel Kekilli
  • Work
  • Weight
  • Level

• I subscribe to the theory that reading a book is similar to walking a trail, and I'm most comfortable walking when I can see where I'm going and where I've been. When I'm reading a printed book, the weight of the pages I've turned gives me a sense of how far I've come.

  

  Anthony Doerr
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Walking

• I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Men
  • Acting
  • Profession

• A peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will likely depend to a great extent on the economic development of a future Palestinian state. As I have argued before, private sector investment - especially in the West Bank - is going to prove crucial in creating the right political and social context for peace.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Great
  • Future
  • Political

• Taking photos is a form of collecting.

  

  Martin Parr