Mary Ellen Mark Quotes
I'm most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That's my forte.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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Telugu audiences love cinema. They won't let a good film down, and they've proved this with the way they accepted 'Srimanthudu.'
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.
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There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're capable of.
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
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There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
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I don't really get stuck in a time warp where, if my film is a success, I have to keep partying till the next one releases, or if my film is a flop, I keep wallowing in sorrow until the next comes my way. My hard work in each film is always there.
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What 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz' and 'World's End' do is smuggle a different movie under the guise of a zombie movie or a cop or alien invasion movie. Even though they all have action and carnage, they are really films about growing up and taking responsibility.
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A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
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I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
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It's very liberating to cut your hair.
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I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.
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I've done more crap than I care to remember. I really have. 'Airwolf.' 'Murder, She Wrote.' 'Amazon Women on the Moon.' But you learn from all these bad shows. What you don't want to do and what you don't want to be involved with.
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During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of reduced spending in exchange for a $1 trillion dollar tax increase.
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“Let go of what you think should be happening for what actually is.
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You're always homesick. There's always something about home that's special. But I'm not a things person. I'm not attached to my things.
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I'm most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That's my forte.
