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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I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
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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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Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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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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I learned music from a book on piano theory. I was only interested in knowing about chords. From that, and from the 'Harvard Dictionary of Music,' I learned everything I wanted to know.
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Anyone fighting for freedom does not want to totally lose their freedom.
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I've yet to find the exact word to describe the enjoyment that an evening spent riffling through old pattern books can bring.
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Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world.
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I didn't want to skate for someone else or for certain marks.
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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.
