Mary Ellen Mark Quotes
I remember the first time I went out on the street to shoot pictures. I was in downtown Philadelphia, and I just took a walk and started making contact with people and photographing them, and I thought, 'I love this. This is what I want to do forever.' There was never another question.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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We must assert to the Abrahamic people that we are the last extension of the Abrahamic religion... There is no such thing as an Islamic tribe.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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I never bought the idea of individual genius from which the novel spews forth. It's always an act of curation.
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In the final analysis, you always get paid for your results.
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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
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Request Magazine: And now we're back to suicide. Some months have passed now since Kurt Cobain killed himself. Judging from his suicide note, it seems as if he thought there was something that was being demanded of him by the music industry or fans or someone, that he either couldn't or didn't want to deliver.
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I remember the first time I went out on the street to shoot pictures. I was in downtown Philadelphia, and I just took a walk and started making contact with people and photographing them, and I thought, 'I love this. This is what I want to do forever.' There was never another question.
