Martin Parr Quotes
You can't shoot in sepia, so converting into black and white and then into brown makes everything feel less real.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'
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It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I don't think the way I portray mother's and son's relationships has anything to do with my age or generation. It has to do with what I lived with my own mother and what it's transformed into and the point of view it has given me on mothers and women. The way I was brought up with women. It's all about personal background.
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Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
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According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.
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If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.
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Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.
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Last week I was in London at an awards show, then I flew home and was in an RV park with my wife and kids in our motorhome, this week I'm in NY doing a charity event, and tomorrow I'll be coaching my daughters soccer practice. I guess the range of roles I play on film stem from the range of roles I play in real life.
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In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world realizes that high energy usage equates with a high standard of living and wealth.
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We spend so much of our lives not feeling but doing, doing, doing, and movies remind us that we are human. That life is all the things we see, and yet there is beauty there. There's a celebration of life and all of its intricacies. Movies are magnificent.
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I can't be enthusiastic as soon as I write something on the music sheet. The music sheet is only the beginning: it has to be listened to, played by the instruments, and then heard by the director, but most importantly, it has to be listened to by the public.
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You can't shoot in sepia, so converting into black and white and then into brown makes everything feel less real.
