Annie Leibovitz Quotes

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.

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• The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Situation
  • Worst
  • Lead

• Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Start
  • Old
  • Late

• I'm a big believer if you want to change people's minds or get someone to vote for you, either a voter or a colleague, you've got to first get their attention.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Change
  • Attention

• People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • People
  • Up
  • Day

• You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Women
  • Love
  • Respect

• It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Work
  • English
  • Language

• It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Mystery

• Watch how you communicate with a woman. Because you're always communicating, even when you're not talking - with your body language, your facial expressions, your eyes.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Eyes
  • Woman
  • Language

• Even the most dishonest officer would want to be seen as a role model for his children.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Children
  • Want
  • Model

• Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Look
  • Mirror
  • Angel

• Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Point
  • Gifts
  • Shock

• Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Girl
  • Teach
  • Praise

• My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I was born into phobia, basically.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Mother
  • Person
  • Born

• One of the reasons I've been able to be productive is that I want to do everything.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Want
  • Everything
  • Been

• It was a good chance for us to play for people who would never have heard us otherwise.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • People
  • Good
  • Chance

• If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Happy
  • Stop
  • Story

• Though not a true cereal but a fruit, buckwheat seeds resemble cereal grains and are often used in a similar way to rice, barley, bulgar or quinoa, usually as a side dish.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • True
  • Way
  • Fruit

• At 21, Real Madrid or Barcelona would have been more difficult for me. If I play well enough at Chelsea, I could win my place in the starting team, and my priority is to play.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Real
  • Team
  • Me

• I am half Puerto Rican, a quarter German and a quarter black. That was always a big issue for me - being mixed race - because casting directors tended to be very like, 'OK, are you Hispanic for this role?' 'Or is she going to be African American?'

  

  Naya Rivera
  • American
  • Race
  • German

• In working on a drawing or a painting, one can rework and rework and rework and change ideas until you get it the way you think is right at that time. With clay that's not possible. You either succeed the first time, or you should wad it up and start over again, because you can't mess around with the clay and still have it fresh.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Painting
  • Firsts
  • Drawing

• They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt; And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Doubt
  • Fly

• Conflict is easy because we've all had conflict, but to really bond with someone and to have a genuine connection, it needs to come from a place by knowing them.

  

  Melonie Diaz
  • Connection
  • Knowing
  • Because

• When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.

  

  Annie Leibovitz