156 Quotes by Annie Leibovitz

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    One of the great things about being an older person is that I am very aware of the scope of the work and the historical sense of it. It's bigger than me.

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    My body was so instrumental to how I took pictures: it was practically a dance. I used to use my legs a lot; now I'm a little more sedentary.

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    There's not enough talked about in terms of growing older. You start to lose your body.

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    I love photography. And I just eat it up. I feel like I'm an encyclopedia, you know, inside.

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    As a young person, and I know it's hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like having a friend, like having someone to go out with and look at the world. I would do things with a camera I wouldn't do normally if I was just by myself.

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    I try to be home for dinner, but I'm not there enough. I sometimes feel I'm still fumbling, getting it wrong, but I make my way.

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    There certainly are people who are a pain to work with. I'd be crazy to name them. You can't be indiscreet in this business.

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    As fantastic as it is to have 'Vogue' and 'Vanity Fair' as places to work, I don't often get to shoot the kind of things I like to photograph in the way I like to photograph.

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    I was with Tom Wolfe at the launch of Apollo 17, which led him to 'The Right Stuff.'

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