Annie Leibovitz Quotes
Those who want to be serious photographers, you're really going to have to edit your work. You're going to have to understand what you're doing. You're going to have to not just shoot, shoot, shoot. To stop and look at your work is the most important thing you can do.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
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I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.
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I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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I've learnt that it is important not to go over the top with aggression, because then either you are going to miss a lot of games, or you are not going to be concentrating on the game you are playing.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.
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It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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I had to read Plato and Kant, and at times I was overwhelmed. But I have always been fearless, and so was Hannah Arendt. She wasn't afraid to speak out when she knew her opinions would not be popular because she believed in the public discourse above all.
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There's a play that Chekhov wrote called 'Uncle Vanya,' and I when I was in school, I played Sonya, and sometimes people ask me if there was ever a role I could play again, that's definitely the role I would play again: Sonya in 'Uncle Vanya.'
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You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.
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North Carolina has been so great because nobody asks me about work.
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The primary problem is to learn to be your own toughest critic. You have to pay attention to intelligent work, and to work at the same time. You see. I mean, you’ve got to bounce off better work. It’s matter of working.
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I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.
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I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.
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Those who want to be serious photographers, you're really going to have to edit your work. You're going to have to understand what you're doing. You're going to have to not just shoot, shoot, shoot. To stop and look at your work is the most important thing you can do.
