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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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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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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My abuela was an incredible cook.
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I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision.
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In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was fun for me to kind of take a break and watch the band.
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Creatively I just enjoy challenging myself in different genres.
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I remember 'Roots' growing up and the cultural impact it had on the country. Watching 'Roots' was not the cool remove of reading about slavery in a book or hearing about it in class. It became something that swept people along.
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The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.
