Martin Parr Quotes
If there is any jarring at all in my photographs, it's because we are so used to ingesting pictures of everywhere looking beautiful.
Quotes to Explore
-
If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.
-
I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping; I won't jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don't do such things. That's not my personality type.
-
I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.
-
I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
-
I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
-
I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
-
News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.
-
I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
-
I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
-
You're either ghetto or you're not.
-
Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.
-
Doo-wop is the true music to me, man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am, and I guess even when I was in school, the teacher probably thought I had ADD or something every day, because I'd be beating on the desks, singing like the Flamingos or the Spaniels or Clyde McPhatter or somebody.
-
It is key that Kansas Citians make the call as to what kind of airport they want.
-
I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
-
Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
-
I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
-
Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
-
In China, you have to have a strong leader for a business to get anything done.
-
The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
-
To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
-
The argument for '12 Years a Slave' was that - yes, it's a beautiful film. Beautifully shot, beautifully acted. It's a real story, and these stories should be told. The problem is, if they're the only stories being told, then it makes Americans of African descent - it puts them into that victim category. And that was my problem with the movie.
-
If you look round Hollywood there's no end of white smiles and six packs. Long lines of beautiful people lining up to be incredible on film.
-
If there is any jarring at all in my photographs, it's because we are so used to ingesting pictures of everywhere looking beautiful.
