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.Mary Ellen Mark
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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?
Saint Augustine -
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.
Paddy Ashdown -
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.
J. Michael Straczynski -
You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
Natalie du Toit -
If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
Barry Goldwater -
If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
Patricia Highsmith
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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.
Zooey Deschanel -
Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
Abu Bakr -
I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
Rachel Cohn -
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.
Taylor Swift -
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.
Kalpana Chawla -
Miguel has this Prince, Marvin Gaye, old-school feel that I love.
Becky G
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
Harold Robbins -
Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
Kailash Satyarthi -
The long-term value proposition for cellphone companies isn't just voice conversation - it's transfer of data.
Gary Kovacs -
Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time.
Patricia Richardson -
South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.
Laura Ingraham -
The books I like to read the most feel like they've been written by somebody who had to write them or go crazy. They had to get them out of their heads. I like that kind of urgency.
Patrick Ness
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A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the opportunity to go to Britain's Central School of Speech and Drama, and my dad and I had a few tense words about that. He wanted me to go to British drama school.
Kate Burton -
Nature is a brilliant engineer and builder. It knows how to create seashells that are twice as strong as the most resistant ceramics human beings can manufacture, and it produces silk fibers five times stronger than steel. Nature also knows how to create multipurpose forms.
Neri Oxman -
Silver nitrate and water in a super soaker," he told her. "My own invention. Ought to be good at twenty feet, kind of like wasp spray." Oh. "You get me the nicest things." "Anybody can get jewelry. Posers
Rachel Caine -
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.
Mary Ellen Mark