Annie Leibovitz Quotes
What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
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There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise.
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My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
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Let's remember that our children's spirits are more important than any material things. When we do, self-esteem and love blossoms and grows more beautifully than any bed of flowers ever could.
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
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I always wanted to be with a woman who has the same mindset and wants to look after me like my mum.
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I just don't want to give out interviews. I just hate them. Inevitably, I ended up hurting some people or leaving some names out or getting quoted out of context.
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I was brought up in a Christian home in Australia with a father who was very bold about his faith.
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I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.
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My own strategy is to find a car, or the nearest equivalent, which looks as if it knows where it's going and follow it. I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.
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British policy on Syria has wandered aimlessly, a deadly mix of timidity and confusion. The lack of a coherent response, not just by Britain but by the wider international community, has allowed the situation in Syria to fester into the greatest humanitarian crisis of our lifetime. … We can and should do much more to help.
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What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.
