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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I come from a jazzy, acoustic, folky background. Everything has to work with melodies; the words have to have meaning.
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Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
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I tell ya, southern people, they always think you are hard-of-hearing. Every timr you leave they say to you, You come back, you hear? And southern people, they think you are horny too. You get directions, they say, Just up the road apiece.
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I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle!
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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.
