Sally Mann quote: "I have three libraries. As a gift, a friend alphabetized and organized my main library of novels, history books, and nonfiction. Then I have a photo-book collection. Then there's this nearly whole room of my childhood books. I've also got cookbooks and a big collection of horse-related books."

Eventually, my highbrow parents, who so hated the Eisenhower suburban culture of the 1950s that the ...
SALLY MANN

The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while re...
SALLY MANN

Maintaining the dignity of my subjects has grown to be, over the years, an imperative in my work, bo...
SALLY MANN

I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.
SALLY MANN

I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to t...
SALLY MANN

I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination.
SALLY MANN

I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.
SALLY MANN

At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the ...
SALLY MANN

It's usually so fraught when you're taking a picture. I work with an 8-by-10 view camera and...
SALLY MANN

If I take enough pictures, I'm going to get a good one, and I know not to stop at a bad one.
SALLY MANN

I don't like memoirs. I think they're self-serving, and people use them to settle scores, an...
SALLY MANN

Death makes us sad, but it can also make us feel more alive.
SALLY MANN

I baked bread, hand-ground peanuts into butter, grew and froze vegetables, and, every morning, packe...
SALLY MANN

To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
SALLY MANN

Very few males have the confidence to appear vulnerable.
SALLY MANN

Time, memory, loss and love are my main artistic concerns, but time, among all of them, becomes the ...
SALLY MANN

I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My f...
SALLY MANN

I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about...
SALLY MANN

You start blocking out things, and that's a really important part of taking a picture is the abi...
SALLY MANN

When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living condit...
SALLY MANN

I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity...
SALLY MANN

When I read something, I picture that scene in that detail. That becomes very similar to composing a...
SALLY MANN

Each time you take a good picture, you have the wonderful feeling of exhilaration... and almost inst...
SALLY MANN

I taught up in Maine a couple of times and wasn't able to take a single picture. All that blue s...
SALLY MANN

I just started taking pictures, and it was - it was an instant love affair. It was just ecstatic.
SALLY MANN

The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.
SALLY MANN

Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straig...
SALLY MANN

I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not fin...
SALLY MANN

The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don't have the element of serendipity. At least...
SALLY MANN

The proverbial hospitality of the South may be selectively extended but it is not a myth.
SALLY MANN

I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and...
SALLY MANN

It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Ren...
SALLY MANN

I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'...
SALLY MANN

You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.
SALLY HAWKINS

At D.O.J., we don't want to go after the corporate wrongdoers simply as an end unto itself; we w...
SALLY YATES

As I've seen over and over again during my career, the best way to deter individual conduct is t...
SALLY YATES

Certainly, I don't think I can ever be accused of being soft on crime.
SALLY YATES

At the Department of Justice, our ability to fulfill our responsibilities - to advocate for victims,...
SALLY YATES

The federal prison population increased by almost 800 percent between 1980 and 2013, often at a far ...
SALLY YATES

Americans should never believe, even incorrectly, that one's criminal activity will go unpunishe...
SALLY YATES

At the risk of sounding really corny now, I'm a career prosecutor. I've been doing this for ...
SALLY YATES

My responsibility is to ensure that the position of the Department of Justice is not only legally de...
SALLY YATES

Restoring a person's ability to achieve success when they leave the prison walls promotes public...
SALLY YATES

We must never take the public's trust for granted - our predecessors worked hard to earn it, and...
SALLY YATES

At the Justice Department, we have no greater obligation than ensuring all people are treated equall...
SALLY YATES

Holding individuals accountable for corporate wrongdoing isn't ideological; it's good law en...
SALLY YATES

It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We...
SALLY YATES

I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
SALLY WATSON

I want to know what people thought and what they wore and what they ate for breakfast.
SALLY WATSON

If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid,...
SALLY STRUTHERS

I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids t...
SALLY STRUTHERS

There are so many things that come into writing a recipe, and it's really important if you'r...
SALLY SCHNEIDER

I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.
SALLY SCHNEIDER

A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a l...
SALLY SCHNEIDER

Years down the line, I became a food stylist.
SALLY SCHNEIDER

This book is pointing the way into it for people that see it as daunting or a mystery. Some people j...
SALLY SCHNEIDER

That being said, I often write into recipes techniques I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There ar...
SALLY SCHNEIDER

I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out fo...
SALLY SCHNEIDER

I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the ...
SALLY SCHNEIDER

Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.
SALLY SCHNEIDER

A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that...
SALLY SCHNEIDER

To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous...
SALLY SCHNEIDER

The restaurant chefs in Spain are breaking ground, but in terms of the everyday cooking in Spain I s...
SALLY SCHNEIDER

Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the ...
SALLY SCHNEIDER

I had all kinds of food issues, including health concerns and weight concerns.
SALLY SCHNEIDER

Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff.
SALLY SCHNEIDER

I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, li...
SALLY SCHNEIDER

Salt is a preservative. It really holds flavor. For example, if you chop up some fresh herbs, or eve...
SALLY SCHNEIDER

You know, this is really a way of cooking. It's not my way. I'm deeply influenced by the Med...
SALLY SCHNEIDER

But all that being said about modulation, if you're serving people delicious food, they won'...
SALLY SCHNEIDER

Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant - I don't know ...
SALLY SCHNEIDER

So many people think they need to have serious equipment. In the magazines and the media, they see a...
SALLY SCHNEIDER

I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
SALLY SCHNEIDER

The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.
SALLY RIDE

But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space progr...
SALLY RIDE

When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless....
SALLY RIDE

For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
SALLY RIDE

It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that ...
SALLY RIDE

My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't fa...
SALLY RIDE

I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, ...
SALLY RIDE

But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
SALLY RIDE

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
SALLY RIDE

Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something ...
SALLY RIDE

We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean,...
SALLY RIDE

The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.
SALLY RIDE

I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.
SALLY RIDE

After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle ...
SALLY RIDE

When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to...
SALLY RIDE

I did not come to NASA to make history.
SALLY RIDE

I'm the original.
SALLY RAND

When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
SALLY RAND

I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.
SALLY RAND

I haven't been out of work since the day I took my pants off.
SALLY RAND

They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a canno...
SALLY RAND

What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmot...
SALLY RAND

If you love living, you try to take care of the equipment.
SALLY RAND

I'm not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by.
SALLY RAND

We've been together 32 years and married for 27.
SALLY QUINN

We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.
SALLY QUINN

This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians.
SALLY QUINN

Then my mother had several strokes and my father, who was 85, couldn't handle it, so Donna came ...
SALLY QUINN

It's always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.
SALLY QUINN

I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying them...
SALLY QUINN

Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.
SALLY QUINN

Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protoco...
SALLY QUINN

Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from th...
SALLY QUINN

Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week i...
SALLY QUINN

I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels...
SALLY QUINN

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of th...
SALLY QUINN

Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I ...
SALLY QUINN

I never know what I'm going to do for the Post next. Two weeks ago I had a piece on Homeland Sec...
SALLY QUINN

I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.
SALLY QUINN

The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting pe...
SALLY QUINN

Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to s...
SALLY QUINN

The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.
SALLY QUINN

It is only in the fundamentalist religions that women are relegated to second class. Radical Evangel...
SALLY QUINN

I tell people that I'm a Christian, but I don't think it's giving an insight into who I ...
SALLY PHILLIPS

My blood runs cold when I hear the 'great news' that we have found a marker for the Down'...
SALLY PHILLIPS

I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school.
SALLY PHILLIPS

All I want to do really is get married and be a matriarch.
SALLY PHILLIPS

I'm not sure my achievements have been 'great.'
SALLY PHILLIPS

The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
SALLY PHILLIPS

My mother always worked and thought staying at home was a bit twee, and that you should get your act...
SALLY PHILLIPS

I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stup...
SALLY PHILLIPS

The only way I'll ever run a marathon is if I'm involved in the administration.
SALLY PHILLIPS

A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back o...
SALLY PHILLIPS

People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mi...
SALLY PHILLIPS

I've got a great relationship with my dad, but I can imagine how annoying it would be if I had t...
SALLY PHILLIPS

Middle-aged women on telly is a bit of a hot topic - before, we were 27 to 37, and now we're 40 ...
SALLY PHILLIPS

My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.
SALLY PHILLIPS

When I'm a brunette, it's four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and sudd...
SALLY PHILLIPS

What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a trage...
SALLY PHILLIPS

Once you have a Down's syndrome child, you can't conform. In a way, you're free.
SALLY PHILLIPS

It's quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.
SALLY PHILLIPS

Getting a new passport took me a stupid amount of time. I had to go back five times with different p...
SALLY PHILLIPS

I think everyone is forgetting what plastic surgery is for - if you have a face-eating tumour, lose ...
SALLY PHILLIPS

I have a lot of funny friends, though not everyone's funny all the time. Doon Mackichan's my...
SALLY PHILLIPS

I don't have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat mor...
SALLY PHILLIPS

I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.
SALLY PHILLIPS

It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I us...
SALLY PEARSON

Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind.
SALLY PEARSON

I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to ...
SALLY PEARSON

When it becomes hard for me not to eat bad food, I try to think about what I have to do and what is ...
SALLY PEARSON

But I'm after medals more than anything. Championships don't get taken away from you but rec...
SALLY PEARSON

My job is my sport so I have to make sure that I stay focussed on it. I train almost every day so it...
SALLY PEARSON

Coming over to Europe you can always put on weight really easily because you are not doing your norm...
SALLY PEARSON

My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've ...
SALLY PEARSON

I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sou...
SALLY PEARSON

Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's n...
SALLY PEARSON

Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
SALLY PEARSON

I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
SALLY PEARSON

If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.
SALLY PEARSON

Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
SALLY PEARSON

I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English ...
SALLY KIRKLAND

My point is that, over the years, I've taught five thousand people acting and lately I have a lo...
SALLY KIRKLAND

A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or ...
SALLY KIRKLAND

I have married thriteen couples. I'm about to do a marriage next month.
SALLY KIRKLAND

She was a genius, my mother.
SALLY KIRKLAND

The only thing that I could think of to do was to be an actress.
SALLY KIRKLAND

Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
SALLY KIRKLAND

I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they'...
SALLY KIRKLAND

So, I think that Marilyn, what she gave the world, and in many ways Kennedy too, was that they had d...
SALLY KIRKLAND

I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what...
SALLY KIRKLAND

When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamor...
SALLY KIRKLAND

I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to ...
SALLY KIRKLAND

I really think that women should be allowed to be more European, in this country.
SALLY KIRKLAND

Probably what my comment meant was that I don't care about the circumstances if I can tell the t...
SALLY KIRKLAND

My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
SALLY KIRKLAND

I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than th...
SALLY KIRKLAND

Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 197...
SALLY KIRKLAND

In the case of Marilyn and John Kennedy, I think they did affect change.
SALLY KIRKLAND

I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
SALLY KIRKLAND

I suppose if I wanted to be the girl next door, I could have been. I think America is confused by so...
SALLY KIRKLAND

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's import...
SALLY KIRKLAND

I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a s...
SALLY KIRKLAND

I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and ...
SALLY KIRKLAND

My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my ex...
SALLY KIRKLAND

In Europe you can be Sophia, you can be these older women who are considered very sexy.
SALLY KIRKLAND

I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe.
SALLY KELLERMAN

I wasn't a businesswoman, so I didn't know how to build a career.
SALLY KELLERMAN

And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.
SALLY KELLERMAN

I didn't want to do it... I'd been trying to get out of TV for years!
SALLY KELLERMAN

I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.
SALLY KELLERMAN

I remember working with Rod, though, on Chrysler Hour. I was too young and dumb to know that I was s...
SALLY KELLERMAN

I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the sto...
SALLY KELLERMAN

I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk.
SALLY KELLERMAN

I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time.
SALLY KELLERMAN

I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing.
SALLY KELLERMAN

I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.
SALLY KELLERMAN

I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.
SALLY KELLERMAN

My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown.
SALLY KELLERMAN

No, I don't belong to a retirement community.
SALLY KELLERMAN

Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
SALLY KELLERMAN

He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.
SALLY KELLERMAN

I was always telling everybody that I could be funny.
SALLY KELLERMAN

It hasn't been smooth or delightful every minute, there were lean years and rough years, but it&...
SALLY KELLERMAN

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.
SALLY FIELD

I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know ...
SALLY FIELD

I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. T...
SALLY FIELD

There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose...
SALLY FIELD

I have three libraries. As a gift, a friend alphabetized and organized my main library of novels, history books, and nonfiction. Then I have a photo-book collection. Then there's this nearly whole room of my childhood books. I've also got cookbooks and a big collection of horse-related books.

Sally Mann

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