Martin Parr Quotes

The knack is to find your own inspiration and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.

Martin Parr

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I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had we known what we were putting off for a year, we might not have put it off.

Jerry B. Jenkins

WritingBookYearFirstLeftOff

Agents recruiting high-school players and talking to high-schoolers - I feel like those are the people who put bad ideas in kids.

Joel Embiid

PeopleIdeasFeelTalkingBadKids

The illusion when things are going your way is that it's gonna just keep going. But it never does.

Andy Dunn

Keep GoingIllusionWayNeverGoing

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.

Robert Penn Warren

LifePoetryGrowOutYourPoems

In my short career, I tend not to repeat myself. I have no interest in redoing something. Sometimes that makes people angry, and maybe it's not the best thing for me commercially. But it's the best thing for me artistically, and it's the best thing for my heart.

Mike Posner

HeartMyselfBestAngryPeopleMe

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

Michel de Montaigne

NatureBusinessBetterWaySheHer

Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.

Chevy Stevens

BeginningThinkYouHandFirstJust

One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.

Brian Eno

KnowledgeBetterInterestingYou

I'm very opinionated.

Brian Eno

OpinionatedVery

From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every way to make Canada's war effort as effective as possible.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

WarEffortPeopleHelpCanadaWay

When I come onto the pitch, that's when I'm able to get into that zone and forget about everything else other than just doing my job. But even then, it's not a job. It's playing football, and that's something I love.

Philippe Coutinho

LoveFootballJobDoingForgetGet

I visualise what I want through meditation. The process of meditating is a great way of making sure I have my priorities sorted. It's not about money - I focus on my career and the kind of film projects I want to do. Film-making is a passion for me, and my mantra is that you should do what you love, and the money will follow.

Shilpa Shetty

LovePassionGreatMoneyFocusMe

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