Martin Parr Quotes
By default, I am a travel photographer. I work on a combination of commissions and personal projects that take me around the world.
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The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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The degree that these scenes went to... there was a couple of days I was upset... I'd have to hurry back to the girls in the makeup trailer and have a bit of a cry because it messes with your head.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it feels that much worse on the way out.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.
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In order to reverse the maternal health crisis for black women in the U.S., we need concrete policies from our leaders and better protocols from hospitals.
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Each one of us continues to carry the heart of each self we've ever been, at every stage along the way, and a chaos of everything good and rotten. And we have to carry this weight all alone, through each day that we live. We try to be as nice as we can to the people we love, but we alone support the weight of ourselves.
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I started out wanting to be an actress. My sister was in this theater company in Brooklyn. I saw her in some plays, and I was immediately obsessed. I started auditioning for plays when I was about 10.
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The Scottish Labour Party should work as equal partners with the U.K. party, just as Scotland is an equal partner in the United Kingdom. Scotland has chosen home rule - not London rule.
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By default, I am a travel photographer. I work on a combination of commissions and personal projects that take me around the world.
