Anna Wintour Quotes

My career got off to a very shaky start when I dropped out of school at the age of 18. Despite my lack of academic credentials, I got a job as a fashion assistant at 'Harper's & Queen.'

Anna Wintour

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: editor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: November 3, 1949

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In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

Jessamyn West

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We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos; there will be genocide; and they will follow us home.

John McCain

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I started auditioning when I was about 10 and I didn't get my first job until I was 12, and two years at that age is really hard.

Anna Kendrick

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There are too many games being developed by people that have no business creating games.

John Romero

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I'm not Yadier Molina behind the plate, but I can throw a ball to second on a rope.

Jon Hamm

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The stereotypes attached to Bollywood were that it's a big, bad world or that it's a dirty world.

Anushka Sharma

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I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself.

Wole Soyinka

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I love drawing on lead. Romans used to curse each other with sheets of it. My slave would come slide the sheet under your door with a curse on it. They had amazing writing and drawings on them, and they survive to this day since lead is so stable.

Shea Hembrey

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I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.

Shania Twain

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We want consumers to say, 'That's a hell of a product' instead of, 'That's a hell of an ad.'

Leo Burnett

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I was in a band called Groove Solution. Because there was a groove crisis, and we solved it.

Julian Barratt

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The other was the best recovered in his condition; and being now pretty well, was appointed nurse to the rest of the sick. Next to oranges, I thought the cyder had the best effects.

James Lind

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