Annie Leibovitz Quotes
The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.
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This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I never been a hater of these other cats, who never really had nothing, being successful. That's not my problem.
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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It was supposed to be about everyone preparing to embark on the cruise, but it mushroomed into an entire book.
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I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.
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Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
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Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.
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My education was very tough.
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I thought I had to work at someplace everybody's heard of. It was never, 'I'm interested in such and such. I want to work in such and such magazine.' It was like, 'Oh, my G-d, I really need to work for somebody so people will think I'm OK.' So I got a job at 'Popular Mechanics'.
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You have to make them laugh and then make them listen.
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A pet. In pets, free will was tolerated only as long as the pet owner found it amusing.
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I know I'll be under a spotlight, I know I'll be under the microscope.
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Make your education personal. When it matters to you, you will show up.
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The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.
