Mary Ellen Mark Quotes
I knew from the first moment I picked up a camera, on my first school assignment, what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I was going to find a way to travel the world and tell the stories of the people I met through photographs.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
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We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
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The devil made me do it.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
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The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
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I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.
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At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This is the length of the ballad stanza, the verse of a hymn, and innumerable other kinds of verse.
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Do I catch flak because I'm so much smarter than everyone else? I don't know.
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I don't want to lose my legs, you know. I don't want to be wheeled around in a wheelchair. I don't want to be attached to a catheter. I saw all that stuff happen to my father, and as much as it upset me because I loved my father so much, it also really traumatized me.
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Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.
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Find a client and get a job.
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I knew from the first moment I picked up a camera, on my first school assignment, what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I was going to find a way to travel the world and tell the stories of the people I met through photographs.
