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, 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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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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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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I have some real big goals with England.
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The money-grubber has been floating with the great current of society, while the poor man has been swimming against it.
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I'm foremost an actor. I feel embarrassed being compared to the guys who really work at it. I fake it, I make believe I know all about it, which is what you're supposed to do as an actor.
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'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.'
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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.
