Martin Parr Quotes
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The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.
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In orthodox film-making, you never shoot sequentially - but with improv, obviously every move you make has a knock-on effect; it is a cumulative process. I have improvised, on the non-scripted 'Timecode.' It can become entirely indulgent: actors smashing crockery and competing verbally.
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You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.
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People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.
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If people still trust me with a funny line, then that is fine. If that is what gets me work.
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I will try to give my 100% in the field and do my job.
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A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.
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The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.
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When you're 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.
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People who know me know that there's a light-hearted side, humour... But you could easily say I am cheeky.
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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Apple makes great hardware. The reality is, in the OS, we see things differently.
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In high school, I did some musicals, but I never took acting until college. I was studying opera, classical voice, and a speech teacher asked me to audition for this play, and I got the lead.
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It's hard to connect to these superheroes that are completely out of this world. But Spider-Man is first and foremost Peter Parker, who we can all relate to.
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Lawyer even sounds like liar.
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What gentle ghost, besprent with April dew, Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew?
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Get money; still get money, boy, No matter by what means.
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There were to be no short cuts to the truth. Instead he would have to adopt a longer, but a reasonably sure method. There would have to be conversation. Much conversation. For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away...
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What happens when you're a child professional is that you have to be, well, professional. You're taught not to have tantrums, to always people-please.
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[...] it is generally accepted that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery. That, at best, is a half-truth. Slavery was an issue, but the primary force for war was a clash between the economic interests of the North and the South. Even the issue of slavery itself was based on economics.
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But why? Why don’t I want to fight when fight is all I’ve ever known and loved? I’ve fought for every inch of joy I’ve ever known.
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I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term - meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching - there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.
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We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.
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TV-makers usually don't know much about photography.
