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Martin Parr Quotes

Margaret Thatcher was very good for the arts in so far as it gave people a real focus for something to be against.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good Focus People Real Arts Against

I give off rather mixed messages about the law. On the one hand, I can honestly say I don't miss working in a law office. On the other hand I do enjoy watching the law and while the profession may have its problems, I have sold zillions of books out of magnifying them.

Law Problems Enjoy I Can Say Hand

I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.

Art Me Control Someone You Timing

It's not the actor's job to be interesting; that's the script's job. It's our job to be truthful and brave.

Job Brave Interesting Actor Truthful

Once I moved to Chicago and started trying to get acting jobs, I just tended to book more things that were comedically based than anything else. I never had the preconceived notion, 'I will be a comedic actor.' I just thought, 'I'll go into acting and see what kind of work I can get.'

Work Book Thought Trying Acting Go

Sometimes when I get home after a long day, I'll turn on music - I love Latin, disco, and pop - and do my own workout, even if it's a short one. Know a good song to work out to? 'I Will Survive.'

Work Love Good Home Music Day

I've been active in animal rights and all kinds of environmental stuff and children's charities over the years.

Martina Navratilova

Children Animal Environmental Active

When Captain Moussa Dadis Camara came to power, too many thought he would hold to his promise to stand down, introduce democratic elections and restore the rule of law.

Power Law Thought Stand Down Hold

I think that if you're a writer and a woman, then you have to take humiliation very well.

Woman Think You Take Well Writer

You're wrong if you think young people don't deserve the vote.

People Think You Wrong Young Vote

'Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.

History Powerful Talk United Film

I'm not an interior decorator; I'm a designer, and that includes the architecture. The package must be strong and controlled, the rooms aligned, and the windows positioned to make sense with the furniture. Fluff it up, and you've got big trouble.

Architecture Be Strong Strong You Up

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.

Pierre Corneille

Mirror Past Thoughts Destiny Always

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