Martin Parr Quotes
My black-and-white work is more of a celebration, and the color work became more of a critique of society.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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Most presenters are consumed with preparing their content rapidly, which makes the material about their own narrow perspective.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
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The thing I love about vampires that I find so fascinating is that, unlike other sci-fi creations, they aren't monsters from the get-go, they're human beings first... and so what kind of human you are would dictate what kind of vampire you would be.
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I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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Science is about unravelling nature.
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I don't know how anyone could stop working.
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The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.
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But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
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As professional soccer players, we take our bodies to the extreme. We're the people at the gym that look like we're breaking the machines. Pushing our bodies to the limits is what makes us so strong and capable and Olympians. It's not an easy thing to consistently do over and over again to your body.
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But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.
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I've worked with David Lynch since I was 17, and working with him is home and family; being around Alexander Payne is home and family, Jonathan Demme. There are directors... Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson... They are directors where I create homes.
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I really have a passion for food. Of course, music, but behind that, it's food.
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Squabbling in public will eventually ruin football; there's no doubt it's hurting us already. Polls taken by Louis Harris - polls as valid as any political polls - indicate that very clearly.
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As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.
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Part of the coalition is intellectuals who have an idea of racial nationalism, which is very popular in right-wing populist movements in Europe. The alt-right believes in racially separate nation-states.
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There is much about the shared terrain of being a black person in the United States that is not seen on small or silver screens or in museums or best-selling books, and much of what gets ignored in the mainstream thrives, and is celebrated, on Twitter.
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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My black-and-white work is more of a celebration, and the color work became more of a critique of society.
