Martin Parr Quotes
I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.
Martin Parr
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People usually spend the first two months playing themselves up, not really being themselves. You waste those two months - and then they tell you, 'You're not who I was dating the first month!'
Manny Montana
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Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his servants, and the Everlasting Gospel is mightier in power to save than our narrow finite minds can comprehend.
Orson F. Whitney
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I think I've interviewed probably 1,500 people in my 24-year business career.
Dan Gilbert
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Government is the thing. Law is the thing. Not brotherhood, not international cooperation, not security councils that can stop war only by waging it... Where does security lie, anyway - security against the thief, a bad man, the murderer? In brotherly love? Not at all. It lies in government.
E. B. White
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English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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I would like to stress that the obligation of being Queen has always been driven by joy. The joy is rooted in the warmth that has met me and my family everywhere through every year, in celebration and joy as in sorrow, in the so-called 'big days', as well as in everyday life.
Margrethe II of Denmark
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When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.
Etgar Keret
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I just try to make the best film possible, and once the movie's done, we deal with the DVD.
John Singleton
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Death is a withdrawal of consciousness. It's like taking attention from here and putting it there.
Esther Hicks
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Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; that's what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say, history, which is written down and stored in an archive.
Jill Lepore
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I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.
Martin Parr
