Martin Parr Quotes
Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.
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The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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I think that what I'd like to instil is that if you join the youth theatre, it's a gateway into greater career prospects.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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Roman's wife Sharon Tate had been murdered by Charles Manson the year before, but Roman had been through so much leaving the Warsaw ghetto that he was very strong and private.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
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One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.
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Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.
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I don't go back and read my own stuff too much, but there are times where I second-guess myself and said I could have done something different, like a line of dialogue.
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The word 'seek' means to go in search of, try to discover, try to acquire. It requires an active, assertive approach to life.
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An engineer's invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from observation, makes thought conform to existence.
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Most of the photographs people take with their cameraphones are of little value in terms of documentary.
