Mary Ellen Mark Quotes
I could spend my whole life photographing circuses. They combine everything I'm interested in - they're ironic, poetic, and corny at the same time. There's also something about a circus that's magical, sentimental, and almost tragic, like a Fellini film.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.
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When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.
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Miguel has this Prince, Marvin Gaye, old-school feel that I love.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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I come from a petit bourgeois family, and I've always been drawn to artists and people who choose their own way of life instead of being chosen by the lives that people want for them.
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What might the world look like if we took some chances on the film-makers we might be afraid of?
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I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents.
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My goal was to be able to be alone without food, sugar, phone, men, TV, anything and to feel O.K. about myself.
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That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.
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I could spend my whole life photographing circuses. They combine everything I'm interested in - they're ironic, poetic, and corny at the same time. There's also something about a circus that's magical, sentimental, and almost tragic, like a Fellini film.
