Martin Parr Quotes

There are elements of irony in my work, of course.

Martin Parr

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• I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Work
  • Daily
  • Lunch

• Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That's the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• I think when you're dealing with very tenuous scenes and difficult and heavy subject matter, it's important to be close intimately with your cast as friends, and be able to diffuse a lot of that tension and trust each other with the work.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Work
  • Important
  • Friends

• I have an issue with rage. I'm going to work that out, long term.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • Work
  • Long
  • Rage

• This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • World
  • Work
  • Control

• I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Work
  • Control
  • Singing

• I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Work
  • Home
  • Hide

• One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term 'reform' is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Work
  • Important
  • Government

• I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Work
  • Ability
  • Somebody

• I feel lucky every day. But I can also trace that luck back to decisions I have made. Frequently, those decisions have been to pay my own way to somewhere I want to be and something I want to do.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Day
  • Luck
  • Decisions

• Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Together

• I feel like I've made good friends with people I've worked with, but in terms of lasting inspiration, it is probably Matthew Vaughn who directed 'Kingsman' who's been really supportive, loyal to me, and been a really good person to work with.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Inspiration

• Many young adults I have communicated with - both in-person and over email - constantly apologize before stating their idea, or finish each sentence with a question. Unfortunately, doing so in business puts you at an immediate disadvantage with your boss and work colleagues.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Work
  • Business
  • Question

• The average Jordanian has much in common with the average American in terms of the values that we share, the fact that we all value the family unit, our work ethic.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Work
  • Family
  • American

• I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Work
  • Talk
  • Irony

• I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over and over again.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Work
  • Over
  • Just Do It

• I don't have one role that I want to play. I guess... I want to be a producer. I want to be an activist. I want to be proactive in bringing about work for men, women, boys, girls, everybody who is good at what they do and deserve a shot at it.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Good
  • Work
  • Men

• The work my mum does, a lot of it is re-housing homeless people, that's a real job. I play make-believe and dressing up for a living!

  

  Jeremy Irvine
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Work
  • Living
  • Dignity

• I held my father's hand while he died of cancer, and it's really painful when you do something like that up close and personal. My mother was already gone, and I was very, very close to my father.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Father

• In 1996, when my first novel, 'Masquerade,' was published, I knew international thrillers - or spy novels, if you prefer - had been the domain of male authors for decades.

  

  Gayle Lynds

• I'm no longer afraid of conflict, and I don't think conflict is a bad thing.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Thinking
  • Bad
  • Conflict

• There are elements of irony in my work, of course.

  

  Martin Parr
  • Work