Martin Parr Quotes
The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.
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During workouts, I listen to Pandora, and I like the '90s pop stations. 'The Backstreet Boys' is fun!
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.
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I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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I like going to Japan where they treat it like a real sport. I like doing the entertainment stuff with the WWE. I really like doing the small venue stuff, like Ring of Honor, because everything is so intimate. There's different feelings and different experiences, and you have to be good at different things to do all of that.
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My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.
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I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
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But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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I naturally like that dreamy, shoegazey sound on my vocals. A lot of reverb helps, and so do a lot of delay effects on everything.
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Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
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We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.
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All of my high school issues are resolved!
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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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Nothing annoys academics more than pointing out how little time they actually spend teaching students.
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A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
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We know what the customer wants, and so we're buying in a totally different way.
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The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.
