Mary Ellen Mark Quotes
In 1965, I was in Trabzon in eastern Turkey on a Fulbright scholarship. I would get up every morning and walk around the streets and look for photographs.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not?
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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Tim on the show does a lot of that posturing, of course, and feels sort of threatened by women. But even at that, you do see him cooking, and ultimately he's a good father because he spends a lot of time with the boys.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don't know how to create by taking the easy routes. I've tried, you know, I've tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate.
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Each album takes two or two-and-a-half years to finish between recording and touring. It's like being with an old boyfriend every single night watching the same things on TV. There is a world out there going on that I'm missing.
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We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.
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When someone calls you 'gay,' there's not much you can do about that because I am. Whereas, if someone calls you fat, there is something you can do about that.
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Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.
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I like to look strong and commanding.
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The United States was an innocent victim after September 11. It had never attacked or occupied Afghanistan. So therefore it had no choice but to go after the aggressors.
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I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.
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Because we self-published 'Draculas,' we control the rights. Not just for now, but forever.
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I love the American dream. I feel this is the place I was supposed to be in. It's beautiful. I love it.
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I have a ranch, which is my favorite place in the world.
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People ask me, what was your rock bottom? I say, pick.
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One of the biggest struggles of my life is my weight. My weight is always going up and down, and I'm always fighting that, and I think that no matter what I do, I'm never going to look good enough to everybody else.
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Don't allow people to suck up all your time with their questions or problems. Learn to say 'no' more often.
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That's one thing I get neurotic about: I need my soup to be crazy hot.
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I used to drive around looking at the big houses, wondering how they got there. I used to love biographies about successful business people, wondering how they got there. You start to realize that if they can do it, I can do it.
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In 1965, I was in Trabzon in eastern Turkey on a Fulbright scholarship. I would get up every morning and walk around the streets and look for photographs.
