Annie Leibovitz Quotes
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
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I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.
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I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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I don't think there's any such thing as perfection. But I'm a perfectionist. I don't believe in the idea of perfection, but I will strive to achieve it.
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Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition.
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If I'm doing my hair myself, I just wash it and let it naturally dry. I'm actually quite good at doing hair; if I wear it up I usually do it myself.
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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
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It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.
