Martin Parr Quotes
We live in a difficult but inspiring world, and there is so much out there that I want to record.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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I don't really give into all that philosophical talks that 'money is not everything.'
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I lose things. I am preoccupied. I am misty. Eyeglasses? I go through eyeglasses like tissue.
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Those who fear the new are the ones who have mastered the old.
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Everyone will be happier if fewer women are tied to abusive men, drop out of school, and live impoverished lives because of a random pregnancy.
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Health care in America, despite all you hear, still offers us citizens one of the most efficient and highest quality systems in the world. But it's expensive, and it's only getting worse.
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I still happen to think the United States is the greatest place in the world to invest.
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We live in a difficult but inspiring world, and there is so much out there that I want to record.
