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" I've never liked the word 'celebrity.' I like to photograph people who are good at what they do. "
Annie Leibovitz
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" I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful. "
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" A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people. "
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" When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph. "
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" You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth. "
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" I'm more interested in being good than being famous. "
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" Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives. "
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" I fell in love with the darkroom, and that was part of being a photographer at the time. The darkroom was unbelievably sexy. I would spend all night in the darkroom. "
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" The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much. "
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" Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself. "
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" A very subtle difference can make the picture or not. "
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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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" It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time. "
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" I don't think I could give advice to my younger self because she probably wouldn't listen. "
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" I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures. "
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" I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed. "
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" My father was stationed at Clark Air Base in the Philippines, which had a hospital where they brought casualties straight from the battlefield. My mother was kind of a sophisticated bohemian, and my father was in the military to make a living. "
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" I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame. "
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" Those who want to be serious photographers, you're really going to have to edit your work. You're going to have to understand what you're doing. You're going to have to not just shoot, shoot, shoot. To stop and look at your work is the most important thing you can do. "
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" I fight to take a good photograph every single time. "
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" If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist. "
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" There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them. "
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