Martin Parr Quotes
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I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless life, possibly a marriageless life, certainly a travelling life - I'm in awe of how much D.H. Lawrence managed to get around. But that's never been something I'm capable of doing.
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If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.
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Every wall is a door.
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I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
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Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
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I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.
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I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.
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Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'
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Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.
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In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.
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I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.
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I give 110% while I am working. I know I do, because I have been doing this since I was nine. This is a way of life for me. So whether it be successful or not is not in my hands. I still do my job, the best I can.
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It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like, you don't want to live there.
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Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.
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Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
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Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course.
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We are living in a world that is beyond controllability.
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The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.
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The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing; and therefore he is like a part in relation to the whole.
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Most of the characters I write with don't think an awful lot about their faith. They're not always questioning the church or feeling confined by the church or rebelling against the church.
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Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it.
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I would drown in objects if I didn't have the ability to photograph them.
