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.

Annie Leibovitz

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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.

  

  U Thant
  • World
  • War
  • Today

• Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Man

• 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.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • House
  • To Do
  • Corner

• He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Heart
  • Help
  • Right

• Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

  

  Quintilian
  • Food
  • Change
  • Like

• When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Fun
  • Day

• I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Deep
  • Almost
  • Zone

• Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.

  

  Xenophon
  • Government
  • Laws
  • Wherever

• 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.

  

  Malcolm Gets
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Future
  • Woman
  • Hell

• I don't want to be someone else.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • Someone
  • Else

• 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.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Attention

• 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.

  

  Origen
  • Wise
  • Word
  • Him

• My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Parents
  • Amazing
  • Best

• The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Health
  • Care
  • Physician

• I always wanted to be with a woman who has the same mindset and wants to look after me like my mum.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Woman
  • Same
  • Mindset

• Before I got married, I dated the gamut.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Married
  • Before
  • Got

• 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.'

  

  Adam Driver
  • Part
  • Girls
  • Script

• Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.

  

  Okky Madasari
  • Women
  • Freedom
  • Religion

• Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?

  

  Ralph Hodgson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Man

• I was tired of everyone saying that when you write about race in America, it has to be nuanced, it has to be subtle, it has to be this and that.

  

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • America
  • Tired

• I'm really drawn to chameleons; I'm really drawn to people who can play a wide range of roles, who are really versatile, but are so in a way that's with ease.

  

  Matt Letscher
  • People

• I think that the world has largely ignored Belize and the political situation and the plight of its people because it's one of the smallest countries and, in terms of the world economy, one of the least significant.

  

  John McAfee
  • People
  • World
  • Political

• What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.

  

  Annie Leibovitz
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