Mary Ellen Mark Quotes
I love dogs. I absolutely adore them. When I'm teaching in Mexico, I rescue dogs from the streets and make my students adopt them.
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Movies are a director's medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn't do well, and the actor walks away with most of the credit if the film does well.
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Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
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I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.
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The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.
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I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
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You don't have to worry about what happened last year; you can start fresh.
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Stuart Murdoch is a really special human being - really creative, but also really kind and gentle.
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My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Henry Armstrong.
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Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting dirty, and they use fragrant bath salts from The Body Shop instead of smelly compost.
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I like a full house because it's how I grew up. I'm one of six children.
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If a woman feels anchored to a man's plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she's worried she's missing.
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If your project or organization depends on knowing things that other people don't know (but could find out if they wanted to), your days are probably numbered. Ask a travel agent The alternative, while difficult, is obvious. Provide enough non-commodity service and customization that it doesn't matter if the ideas spread. In fact, it will help you when they do.
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Americans look at the Middle East as a source of trauma because of 9/11. At the same time, I could see the fear going on in the Middle East as well - which would be the next country to be invaded or sanctioned? Being around those tensions was traumatic for me.
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I love dogs. I absolutely adore them. When I'm teaching in Mexico, I rescue dogs from the streets and make my students adopt them.
