Martin Parr Quotes
I toyed with the notion of being an actor, and am so glad that this whim did not go any further.
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Awards don't really mean much.
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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I'm very happy being attorney general.
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I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.
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It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan.
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Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.
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I have a lot in common with Lewis Carroll's Alice (my favorite female literary heroine, besides Becky Sharp). I've been sent on a journey to places even bleach can't reach.
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Don't be afraid to look silly.
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The Simpsons can go anywhere in the world and not worry about any budgetary issues. However, even when the show has had its run, I think the characters can go on in perpetuity.
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He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.
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I'm interested in all forms of performance, yet I think it's difficult to be as equally talented in all of them as they call for such different skills. At the moment, I still feel I'm learning and want as much experience and variety as possible.
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I love the way they look. I love the way they feel. I love saying the word again and again: Jeggings! Jeggings! Jeggings!
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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!'
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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.
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I think I've interviewed probably 1,500 people in my 24-year business career.
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Meditation is a really powerful tool I have for life now. The only reason I know about it is because I was stressing about writing and a friend taught me it. It's been useful.
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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.
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English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.
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When I look back at my career and my life and how much I have learnt, I feel blessed with what I have. I have stopped fighting with myself.
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Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being choosy about the roles I take up. One thing I can assure you of is that you are going to see a lot of me!
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The last night of love, the first night of war
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The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.
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Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two - beauty and violence - live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be very cathartic.
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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.
