Mary Ellen Mark Quotes

During prom season, I travel around the country with a 20-by-24 camera - which is logistically complicated - and photograph proms. My husband made a film of it.

Mary Ellen Mark

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TravelHusbandCameraComplicated

What I do now, when I'm taking on a film, I always ask about the fairness of the pay. I ask what they're offering me in comparison to the guy. I don't care about how much I get paid; I'm in an industry where we're overcompensated for the work we do.

Jessica Chastain

WorkMeCareFairnessNowPay

The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.

Robert Morley

HappyLongAlwaysTouristBritish

My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.

John Woolman

FaithHeartPeopleSocietyFeeling

I've tried to tell a story. For me, it is the best one.

Amanda Lear

BestMeStoryTellTried

People got to know me very gradually. It was little things. It's still like that. 'That Thing you Do!' was a big thing. It's always been very gradual. Like I say, people still ask me if I'm still acting. 'I've seen all your movies. What are you doing now?' Ha ha!

Steve Zahn

PeopleMeLittle ThingsDoingActing

I look like a real bag lady when I go to Starbucks with my dog and get my chai.

Shirley MacLaine

DogBagLadyLookGoStarbucks

And, in fact, you can find that the lack of basic resources, material resources, contributes to unhappiness, but the increase in material resources do not increase happiness.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

HappinessYouFindResourcesBasic

The truth is that genetics has robbed me of hair. But it's not interesting to blame genetics.

Moby

TruthMeBlameHairTruth IsRobbed

'2016' is based on an experiment: what if you let Obama do it himself? That experiment is necessarily limited because I'm not factoring in a Republican House, a Supreme Court or the tug of public opinion.

Dinesh D'Souza

OpinionYouHouseWhat IfRepublican

We can't afford as a nation - not because of money but because of our social fabric - to have large numbers of people who are not working.

Donna Shalala

MoneyPeopleNumbersNationWorking

The goal is doing stand-up on TV somewhere, which is what I'm working on. Something on latenight or Comedy Central, but - I dunno, something. It could happen, it could not happen.

Chris Cubas

ComedyDoingGoalHappenSomething

Sharing presumes and creates equality.

Clemantine Wamariya

EqualitySharingCreates

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