Martin Parr Quotes
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone.
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Our entire film fraternity should be proud of 'Baahubali.' These are the kind of films that are not made very often.
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Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
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When men I have dated over the years whined about, 'Oh, you make no time for me' - see ya! I just dumped them. I don't need that pressure in my life.
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But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.
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One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
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I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places.
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.
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Teen drug use went up dramatically in the 1990s.
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I'd always been a very competitive boy - I hated coming second.
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Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula? I mean, they're charging a lot of money for this stuff.
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People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.
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Also, I think having that comic gene kind of makes you look at things in a different way. If you take yourself so seriously, eventually you end up one of those people having a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on their lives. You see them drawing the curtains and they don't even realize that they've kind of drifted off somewhere.
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Places change all the time, and the type of people who live there change.
