Mary Ellen Mark Quotes
I always think, 'What does this picture mean? What's the best place to put my camera? Do I have anything extra in the picture, things in the background that will distract? Am I in the basic position that will give the essential things for this picture but not too much?'
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When you really start figuring things out as a quarterback, you realize you don't have to be perfect every time, but you do have to be quick and decisive.
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We, after a certain age, after college, are so consumed about what we want to achieve in life, and we fiercely are ambitious and we go after that, but sometimes we tend to take all our loved and dear ones for granted.
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Don't underestimate your opponent, but don't overestimate them, either.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
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I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom.
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.
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It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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Growing up in Australia, space exploration wasn't something I was too aware of.
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Let the novelists fret about consistency - story writers should feel free to jam; to get things right in new, surprising ways by allowing themselves, now and then, to get things wrong.
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The funny thing is that Dick Cheney has done more than anybody in the White House for quite a long time to throw up roadblocks against future historians.
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Descriptive research provides an accurate description or picture of the status or characteristics of a situation or phenomenon.
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I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
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I'm a storyteller... I haves a God-given gift that I can share with you and perhaps entertain you and bring you along for the ride... So when anybody tries to take that away from me, or impede that, I get defensive.
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I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.
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I always think, 'What does this picture mean? What's the best place to put my camera? Do I have anything extra in the picture, things in the background that will distract? Am I in the basic position that will give the essential things for this picture but not too much?'
