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Martin Parr Quotes

I don't like being flattered. It doesn't suit my English sensibilities. Remember, we are the great country of understatement.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: photographer
Nationality: british
Birth: May 23, 1952

Topics

Great Remember Country Suit English

The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?

Jerry Pournelle

Writing Better Roses Chair Down

Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.

Happiness Small Desk Big Very

I read the 'Harry Potter' books as I was writing my own books, and I love them, but I don't think Harry was very much like I was as a kid. He's always brave, and he's perfect in a lot of ways.

Love Brave Writing Think Perfect

So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all.

Best Think Guitar Attention Village

People have this idea that opera singers are overweight and sit at home eating bonbons. But I consider myself an athlete.

Sondra Radvanovsky

Home Myself People Eating Athlete

There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find it useful.

Rufus Wainwright

Love New York Church Find Go New

The only place you can really find the confidence and the love for yourself is within you, so that has to be what carries you: not all of these external things.

Love Confidence Yourself You Find

The repression of virtuous instinct in the modern world is an incremental tragedy. Repress one instinct, and you repress many; other parts of consciousness go down, also.

World You Down Tragedy Go Modern

Google has helped raise the importance of DNS above the network engineering community, which has been really good.

Good Community Engineering Google

Anyone who's a great kisser I'm always interested in.

Great Always Interested Anyone

Shoot for the moon - if you miss you'll end up in the stars.

Stars Moon End You Up Shoot

While I have always thought that the motivation for looking for E.T. was both self-evident and patently worthy, it's possible that I'm a victim of my own job description. Others don't inevitably agree. Some will opine that there are better ways to spend the money.

Money Job Looking Thought Better

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