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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When a grown man reaches forty, we change him for an old one. He has completely disappeared. There's only the most superficial resemblance between the two of them. Nothing is handed on from one to the other.
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Poets writing in English have long learned to mourn from classical precedents. They have drawn on a tradition of pastoral elegies, which incorporate the dead into the cycles of nature, that runs from Theocritus' Idylls to John Milton's 'Lycidas' and Percy Shelley's 'Adonais.'
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Faith idles when character shrivels.
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I see my career as not just music, but as hopefully an entertainer on all mediums, and someone who can have real influence and make great art.
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I love anything leopard print, but sometimes an all over print can be a bit much.
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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.
