Mary Ellen Mark Quotes
Looking at my own prom photograph reminds me of how significant that moment was - and how fleeting life is.
Quotes to Explore
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I would like to direct.
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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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The novelist, he's not a philosopher, not a technician of spoken language. He's someone who writes, above all, and through the novel asks questions.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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There's always pressure playing in the NHL. You want to play your best game every game. Expectations are always gonna be there; it's just important that you know how to handle expectations.
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I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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If my life was a song it would be, 'It ain't that easy being green' from Sesame Street.
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The reason my voice is sounding more passionate is because I'm singing directly from the heart.
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I always love working with children. I never had children of my own. God has his purposes. God didn't let me have children so everybody's children could be mine. That's kind of how I'm looking at it.
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I used to know Jennifer Love Hewitt. We lived in the same apartment building when I was about... jeez, I guess it was when I was doing 'Christmas Vacation', so I was about 13 or 14.
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Looking at my own prom photograph reminds me of how significant that moment was - and how fleeting life is.
