Martin Parr Quotes
Of course, New Brighton is very shabby, very rundown, but people still go there because it's the place where you take kids out on a Sunday.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
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I played cello in my high school orchestra.
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My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.
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Everyone likes a bit of variety. I'm sure none of my readers only want to read about anti-heroes or villainous protagonists any more than they only want to read about square-jawed heroes doing the right thing. I just write characters than entertain me and hope they'll be ones that other people want to read about, too.
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...we will arrange for 'religion' to become a small subdepartment of ordinary life; it will be quite safe - harmless, in fact - with church life carefully separated off from everything else in the world, whether politics, art, sex, economics, or whatever.
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Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.
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I've never been much drawn towards satire of any kind.
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Of course, New Brighton is very shabby, very rundown, but people still go there because it's the place where you take kids out on a Sunday.
