Everyone asks me how I get my subjects to open up to me. There’s no formula to it. … - Mary Ellen Mark

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The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.

Mary Ellen Mark

Everyone asks me how I get my subjects to open up to me. There’s no formula to it. It’s just a matter of who you are and how you talk to people - of being yourself.

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Finding the right subject is the hardest part.

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Photograph the world as it is. Nothing's more interesting than reality.

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I'm interested in reality, and I'm interested in survival. I'm interested in people who aren't the lucky ones, who maybe have a tougher time surviving, and telling their story.

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It’s not when you press the shutter, but why you press the shutter.

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I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.

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The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.

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If you accept that conservatism equals constitutionalism - and I do - well, then, where do we start? We do we start reinstituting all of these values, the morality in the culture, in our society; the respect for rule of law. And then you look at what we're up against, an entire Democrat Party.

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Andrew Stanton

Frankly, there isn't anyone you couldn't learn to love once you've heard their story.

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When I enter a club and hear my song being played, I feel like it's not really my song and when I see people dancing to my song, I feel like jumping up on stage and treating them to drinks.

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William James

The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem, the formulas of trigonometry, the facts of history, the properties of material things, are all known to us as definite systems or groups of objects which cohere in an order fixed by innumerable iterations, and of which any one part reminds us of the others.

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