Martin Parr Quotes
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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I love zoo sanctuaries.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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People just get kicks out of making other people sad.
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When I'm off the golf course, I feel the pressure, but I try to concentrate on the golf course.
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I only know what I read in the papers.
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I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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Conversations about money certainly are not sexy, but they should give each of you some clarity and enable you to enter into your marriage with a better understanding of each other and what is important. Work and home responsibilities, joint or separate accounts, budgets, etc. are all subjects which should be discussed.
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At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is.
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I like making movies that have some of the qualities of first-person shooter games. That was very important to me for the 'Bourne' franchise.
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I see life everywhere I look. I get the energy off the water. Hawaii really, when I am there, it feels like how we are supposed to live and how it's supposed to be: slower, just appreciating our surroundings. I love the people there and the aloha, the history. They're really rooted in something.
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My goal was to become the best dancer in the world and, because I started late, I always had this feeling I was playing catch-up, so I've been a bit of a maniac most of my life, sort of striving.
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in darkness and in hedges
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We should have an easier name to pronounce.
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I am away so much, so I rarely see live TV, but I use iPlayer to catch programmes.
