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 feel empowered the fact that I can look the way that I do on stage and in photos - I can look that way any time I want. And I feel like it's important message to other women that they can do it, too.
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I discovered what is and isn't important to me. I decided I really wanted to enjoy life with someone fun, who can make the best out of any situation - whatever it is we're doing.
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All stress comes from resisting what is.
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If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.
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I've probably given myself enough time to prepare for this meet and we're all different athletes so I can't take their results as what's going to be inevitable for me.
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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.
