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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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
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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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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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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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Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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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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When I was 13, I had my first job with my dad carrying shingles up to the roof. And then I got a job washing dishes at a restaurant. And then I got a job in a grocery store deli. And then I got a job in a factory sweeping Cheerio dust off the ground.
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I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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I'm slowly feeling more Chinese and feel I should be more proud of being Chinese and appreciate where I've come from.
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What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.
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The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.
