Martin Parr Quotes
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I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
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Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.
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But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what's going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone.
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I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.
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That's all I cared about too, was getting it right.
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In 2008, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for work done on a molecule called green fluorescent protein that was isolated from the bioluminescent chemistry of a jellyfish, and it's been equated to the invention of the microscope in terms of the impact that it has had on cell biology and genetic engineering.
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I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.
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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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There's a lot of people out now around America who depend on checks from their fellow taxpayers being in the mailbox every day.
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If you can make the song a soundtrack to what you're living at the time, I think that's the most important part of a song.
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I'm part of a speech therapy programme called the McGuire Programme. It teaches you a new way to breathe, a new way to speak, a brand new way of tackling the mind-sets that come with having a speech impediment. Mainly, it teaches you how to slow things down, and that has really helped me.
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I have no favourite genre or style but treat each novel with the same care, imagination and craftsmanship. It's as difficult to write a crime or a children's novel with a touch of style and grace as it is a literary novel.
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Most people should be talking about how Floyd Mayweather is a great undefeated future Hall of Famer that's his own promoter and that works extremely hard to get to where he's at. Instead, all you hear is hate and jealous remarks from critics who criticize me and, you know, most of the time, the people that criticize me can't do what I can do.
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Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in.
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I can't see myself spending the rest of my life as a judge.
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To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human.
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I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.
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Writers are as jealous as pigeons.
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People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.
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It was a disappointing loss tonight. We couldn't finish it to its completion.
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I love 'Battles,' and I love what it's doing for people.
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If your data is out there earning money for somebody, you should have a say in it.
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When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved. And it's hard, man. They brainwash you to think you're doing the right thing.
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I am a big fan of Jim Jarmusch, and I do love big screen documentaries.
