Anna Wintour Quotes

To me, fashion is ceaselessly fascinating because it is an expression of self.

Anna Wintour

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• The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Together
  • Tree
  • Creation

• To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Fun
  • Gay
  • Pride

• I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
  • Money
  • Power

• Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • People
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Time
  • Science
  • Past

• I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Movie
  • Think

• Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Think
  • Idiot
  • Computers

• Friends are really important, especially when you've had the successes that I've had. I've gone really far in my career, so they're the ones that keep you humble, keep your feet on the ground.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Important
  • Friends
  • Career

• I no longer get into stupid thought wormholes about identity and stuff. At one time, I did have some impostor syndrome about acting, but then I remembered I've been doing this since I was little, actually.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Time
  • Thought
  • Stupid

• I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Experience
  • Food
  • Lost

• When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Age
  • Growing
  • Same

• I was a curious child. I'd debate with anyone who came to the door - people from the Islamic community... Jehovah's Witnesses... anyone.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Community
  • Child

• People often call 'If I Stay' my baby novel, and I have to correct them. It's not my first book. It's just the first one anybody paid attention to.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • People
  • Book
  • Attention

• My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • First
  • Celebrity
  • Crush

• Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Fear

• An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Society
  • Intellectual
  • Call

• People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.

  

  Tamer Hassan
  • People
  • See
  • Right

• I have hated every Kress I read, especially this one, but the Bear is a standard Bear and if you like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing you'll like.

  

  James Nicoll

• Earlier this year I was diagnosed with breast cancer and a couple of weeks ago I received the devastating news that the cancer has advanced to other parts of my body.

  

  Sarah Harding
  • Body
  • Cancer
  • Advanced

• I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • World
  • Men
  • Fashion

• I thought that the fashion world could be a bit fake sometimes, but it's nothing compared to Hollywood. These girls would walk over their grandmothers' graves to get a part, and the producers talk about actresses like they're dirt, picking over every part of them so that they end up paranoid and having surgery.

  

  Elizabeth Jagger
  • Up
  • World
  • Fashion

• To me, fashion is ceaselessly fascinating because it is an expression of self.

  

  Anna Wintour
  • Fashion
  • Expression
  • Fascinating