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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I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something.
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I never had a problem with genre because a genre actually is like a uniform - you put yourself into a certain uniform.
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I like to relax a lot the night before a race. I like having people around me. I don't like being on my own, particularly. Music helps psych you up, too.
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For twenty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be and whether you accomplish the things you value.
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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.
