Martin Parr Quotes
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The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.
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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 didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.
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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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I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.
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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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Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.
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There's never a case of, 'Ooh, I touched a nerve there.' It's make believe.
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We start to die when we no longer have the power to choose.
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We are constantly straining to devise new methods, new plans, new organizations to advance the Church and secure enlargement and efficiency for the gospel. This trend of the day has a tendency to lose sight of the man or sink the man in the plan or organization. God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men...
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When you know something’s wrong, but you don’t know exactly what it is, the air around you changes.
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Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
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This is a time of great change in the world but America's always been a pillar of strength and a beacon of hope to peoples around the globe and that's what it must continue to be.
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Taking photos is a form of collecting.
