Martin Parr Quotes
I don't like being flattered. It doesn't suit my English sensibilities. Remember, we are the great country of understatement.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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'Die Antwoord' just has a nice ring to it.
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In my 20s, when I was a photojournalist in Beijing. I joined an underground art group and put on clandestine exhibitions of my paintings.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.
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I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
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No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.
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I'm not at yoga all the time, but equally, I'm not being sick after a night out.
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Why can't there be a lot of great women who are doing great things?
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You have to remember, I never became successful or wealthy till I was 30.
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I don't like being flattered. It doesn't suit my English sensibilities. Remember, we are the great country of understatement.
