Martin Parr Quotes

Modern technology has taken the angst out of achieving the perfect shot. For me, the only thing that counts is the idea behind the image: what you want to see and what you're trying to say. The idea is crucial. You have to think of something you want to say and expand upon it.

Martin Parr

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• Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Time
  • Music
  • Money

• I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

  

  Rachel Field
  • May
  • Think
  • Ambition

• I do not consider myself beautiful.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • Beautiful
  • Myself
  • Consider

• I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • Work
  • Live
  • Present

• Act because you love to act.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Love
  • You
  • Act

• All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidden meanings. If you're writing science fiction, you're writing rocket ships. If you write dystopian fiction, it's inequity where The Man must be fought.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • People
  • Writing
  • Man

• In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Trying
  • Soul
  • Pain

• Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can't afford losing one.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Love
  • You
  • Losing

• Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Religious
  • Violence
  • Religion

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Time
  • Depression
  • Very

• While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Book

• The economic sense of possibility was so great when I was growing up that my parents had no question that I could do anything I wanted to do, even as a girl. I've always believed that the economics of a story intersects with the women's story - that stuff often happens at the time it happens because of the economy.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Learning
  • Share

• Custom adapts itself to expediency.

  

  Tacitus
  • Custom
  • Itself
  • Expediency

• The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.

  

  Earl Long
  • Good
  • Know
  • Kind

• Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Will
  • Racism
  • Discrimination

• We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Work
  • Freedom
  • Relationship

• Our passions are like convulsion-fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Time

• I remember being very psyched for our first tours, despite not knowing about the endless stream of situations and setbacks that we'd face.

  

  Ariel Pink
  • Remember
  • Face
  • Situations

• The only album that I listen to upon recording a new one is my 'Cry' album, because sonically, I think it's my best album to date. But other than that, I've never listened to my records, ever.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Think
  • Best
  • Listen

• When we each focus on being the dominant force in our own universe rather than invading other universes, we all win.

  

  Emily V. Gordon
  • Universe
  • Focus

• I have always been very open and honest about this part of my life with my friends, my family, and my colleagues. In a perfect world, I don't think it's anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted. I’m not an activist, but I am a human being and I don't give that up by being a journalist.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• Modern technology has taken the angst out of achieving the perfect shot. For me, the only thing that counts is the idea behind the image: what you want to see and what you're trying to say. The idea is crucial. You have to think of something you want to say and expand upon it.

  

  Martin Parr
  • Trying
  • Perfect
  • Technology