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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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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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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I was brought up in a very rural area on grounds of a castle. It was a working farm, and I even remember the local shepherd wearing his Barbour jacket.
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And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.
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If it happens that I score 50 goals, it'll be awesome. Any player in the league would like 50. But I don't keep thinking every day that I have to score in order to reach 50 goals .
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I assisted at the birth of that most significant word 'flirtation,' which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world.
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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.
