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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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Before I got married, I dated the gamut.
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When I read for 'Girls,' I was like, 'The script says 'Handsome Carpenter,' so someone else is going to get the part. They'll have someone handsome, not me.'
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I don't like controversy.
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When you can't see someone all day long, the only thing you have to evaluate is the work. A lot of the petty evaluation stats just melt away.
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Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.
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I think it helps in any comedy room for a woman to have very strong, respected convictions, because then it opens the door up a little bit for other women to have that.
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When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations.
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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.
