Annie Leibovitz Quotes
One of the great things about being an older person is that I am very aware of the scope of the work and the historical sense of it. It's bigger than me.
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You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
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I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
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Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.
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I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
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I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.
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When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, 'O Fortune!' said he, 'for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief.'
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I was obsessed with girls when I was 13 years old; I wasn't really into books.
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Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.
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One of the great things about being an older person is that I am very aware of the scope of the work and the historical sense of it. It's bigger than me.
