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Martin Parr Quotes

I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

I Am People Me Camera Know Always

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.

Down Way Write Things Share Justify

'The Lucky One' features a young concentration camp survivor named Peter Rashkin - who's about the age my dad was when he started at CBS - working at the Oyster Bar, trying to acclimate to his new country and outrun the memories of the daily he left behind.

Daily Age Memories Trying New Young

When I wake up in the morning, I need the writing to go to. I begin there. And that's not an accident, I mean, that habit of getting up in the morning and going to my writing first thing.

John Edgar Wideman

Morning Habit Writing Wake Up Go Up

The goal is always just trying to stretch yourself as an actor.

Yourself Trying Goal Actor Always

I love insects. They are amazing.

Love Amazing Insects I Love

The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

Win Goal Person Labor Will May

I can't stand it when men are snarky.

People tend to overestimate the short-term impact of technological change. In the short-term, it's not going to make that much of a difference.

Stewart Butterfield

Change People Impact Difference Much

I was also lucky to play for an owner, Bud Selig, who truly cared about his players. He'd call me into his office once in a while when he knew things weren't going so well. And it's funny. Every time I left there I always felt like something good was about to happen.

Funny Good Time Me Play Lucky

Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn't - to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia's favorite expressions - 'Get over it!'

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Success Justice Job Constitution Us

Over time, our inescapable, systemic, fundamentally human impurity gives us the capacity to do what has not been done before: to make creative leaps in our biology, in the diseases we can resist and the foods we can digest. And in our thinking and culture and politics, too.

Time Culture Politics Creative Done

Within me, I knew I would never be a first-rate producer. I wasn't tough enough.

Me Tough Enough Never Within Would

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