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.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Up
  • Movie
  • End

• Anyone who knows me knows what I'm about - how much I'm into empowerment, equal rights and everyone just loving themselves.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Me
  • Equal
  • Empowerment

• I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Think
  • Authority
  • Brains

• 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.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • People
  • Book
  • Hunger

• I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • America
  • Building
  • Now

• The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • You
  • Like
  • Personality

• I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.

  

  Fawn Hall
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Citizen

• One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Change
  • Years
  • Wishes

• Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Good
  • Never
  • Influence

• There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Happiness
  • Sorrow
  • Prove

• With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Time
  • Band
  • Perfection

• No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Long
  • Business
  • Dying

• You don't have to worry about what happened last year; you can start fresh.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Worry
  • Start
  • Year

• Stuart Murdoch is a really special human being - really creative, but also really kind and gentle.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Kind
  • Creative
  • Special

• 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.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Favorite
  • Literary
  • Mary

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Up
  • Pretty

• I like a full house because it's how I grew up. I'm one of six children.

  

  Kate Spade
  • Up
  • Children
  • House

• 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.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • May
  • She
  • Fun

• Boundaries move with time. It's like being the oldest child. Your parents don't know what to expect, but by the time the little sister comes along, it's like, 'Oh, staying out late with a boy - no big deal.'

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Boy

• Earlier maps had underestimated the distances to other continents and exaggerated the outlines of individual nations. Now global dimensions could be set, with authority, by the celestial spheres. Indeed, King Louis XIV of France, confronted with a revised map of his domain based on accurate longitude measurements, reportedly complained that he was losing more territory to his astronomers than to his enemies.

  

  Dava Sobel
  • Distance
  • Individual
  • Authority

• I think real life couples on screen are kind of deadly. For the most part, they're kind of deadly. You'd be surprised. Unless they're falling in love onscreen for the first time, you don't have quite the same energy for some reason.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Life
  • Time
  • Energy

• 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.

  

  Mary Ellen Mark