Mary Ellen Mark Quotes
A lot of people who don't have anything collect dogs; it's kind of a symbol of having something.
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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'SVU' is one of my favorite shows. When I got the call to appear and play myself, I jumped at the chance. Obviously, I went over my lines, but playing yourself is a really great way to get your feet wet in the acting field. I enjoyed being on set and learning as much as I could about the scripted world.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
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One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.
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Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
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An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
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If I have any complaints about my youth... one is that many well-meaning adults lied to me. Not spiteful lies with malicious intent but lies designed to prevent emotional and psychological pain - lies told by the people who cared about me most: my parents, teachers, relatives.
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When I come to England, I don't claim England; I don't own it. I feel a great kinship because of the literature and the landscape. I have great affection for Edward Thomas and Philip Larkin, but there's still this distance: looking on at what I'm admiring, separate from what I am. And that's OK.
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Sometimes you get what you want not because it's right or fair or even smart, but because you just don't know any better.
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I've noticed in my life that as you work on more things with more people, you spend less time hanging out with other people who are artists, creative people who give you a sense of family.
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The striking surprise is that prophets of Israel were tolerated at all by their people. To the patriots, they seemed pernicious; to the pious multitude, blasphemous; to the men in authority, seditious.
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A lot of people who don't have anything collect dogs; it's kind of a symbol of having something.
