Mary Ellen Mark Quotes

As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes before I ever flew in one. I really knew, when I started photographing, I wanted it to be a way of knowing different cultures, not just in other countries but in this country, too, and I knew I wanted to enter other lives. I knew I wanted to be a voyeur.

Mary Ellen Mark

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I don't think I'd want to sit down and listen to people's stories all day long.

Joan Severance

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I like period drama because everyone is so restrained, but they have all these emotions raging underneath.

Jenna-Louise Coleman

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I talk about race a lot. It's been my work ever since I came out of acting school. But it's true that in a way talking about race is a taboo. Because so many of our debates about race have to do not with race but with what we are willing to see, what we will not see and what we don't want to see.

Anna Deavere Smith

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Moths are okay. Actually, moths don't bother me near as much as, say, spiders do.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

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My dad was a cross-country truck driver.

John Searles

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I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.

Stanley Tucci

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Don't do a hard sell or try to tell the agent that you're going to be a bestseller or the next John Grisham. This goes down very badly. If your work is good, then they are skilled enough to know this within a few pages.

Lisa Jewell

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NPR editors and journalists found themselves caught in a game of trying to please a leadership team who did not want to hear stories on the air about conservatives, the poor, or anyone who didn't fit their profitable design of NPR as the official voice of college-educated, white, liberal-leaning, upper-income America.

Juan Williams

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The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.

Jon Meacham

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We proved we could be safe and secure at home, and still have more allies and friends in the world.

Chelsea Clinton

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My instincts are conservative, but my inclinations are also libertarian.

Christopher Buckley

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I feel reviewers are tougher on comedies in general. They don't take them seriously, and the ones that get great reviews are not necessarily the ones that I like.

Bobby Farrelly

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