Martin Parr Quotes
The knack is to find your own inspiration and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.

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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.
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People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.
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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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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
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We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
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The nonphysical law allows you to use nonphysical causes to create nonphysical effects and also physical effects. This does not mean that you are not in control of what you create. On the contrary! It means that you are entirely free to create what you want, provided you are aware of how the nonphysical law of cause and effect works.
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.
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I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
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There's a huge expanse of this continent that so seldom gets photographed.
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I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
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I heard that people were really interested in the new haircut, which I think is so funny. Great haircut, I really like it. It goes great with the time period. And I was super, super, super-happy to have my bangs swept to the side rather than straight in front of me, which I dealt with for three seasons. I'm very, very much done with that.
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In light of the recent controversy surrounding foreign management of U.S. Ports, a thorough review of foreign management of U.S. airports needs to occur.
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Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.
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Entrepreneurship is usually about people executing in the face of other folks telling them that it's not going to work.
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You have to be able to improvise and respond to what's going on around you. Then you might get a good piece of work done.
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The knack is to find your own inspiration and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.