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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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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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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Truly, with a sitcom and the rhythms of comedy... music is so helpful in that area of life.
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Because of its shortcomings - driving range, cost, and recharging time - the electric vehicle is not a viable replacement for most conventional cars.
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That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best.
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But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
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I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is my idea and here's all the reasons that it's right.' It doesn't make for very compelling reading.
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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.
