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• Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.

  Ansel Adams

  Art, Eye, Museums

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• Two types of films: those that employ the resources of the theater (actors, direction, etc...) and use the camera in order to reproduce; those that employ the resources of cinematography and use the camera to create

  Robert Bresson

  Order, Two, Use

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.10, New York Review of Books

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• Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch?" I say. "Yes! Perfect. One is always much braver with an audience," he says. "Look at the courage Peeta just displayed!" It's all I can do not to slap him.

  Suzanne Collins

  Perfect One, Looks, Slap

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.141, Scholastic Inc.

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• Insane means fewer cameras!

  Ally Carter

  Mean, Insane, Fewer

  Ally Carter (2011). “Only the Good Spy Young”, p.217, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.

  Suzanne Collins

  Letting Go, Games, Katniss

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.483, Scholastic Inc.

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• Whatever she saw beyond the camera lens, beyond the photographer, beyond anything in the known world probably - wasn't fit to be seen.

  Dennis Lehane

  Saws, Lenses, World

  Dennis Lehane (2010). “Shutter Island”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• I don’t keep a travel diary. I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down. Everything else slipped away, as though my mind felt jilted by my reliance on pen and paper. For exactly the same reason I don’t travel with a camera. My holiday becomes the snapshots and anything I forget to record is lost.

  Alex Garland

  Mistake, Writing, Holiday

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• He wants as many victors as possible for the cameras to follow in the Capitol. Thinks it makes for better television." "Are you and Beetee going?" I ask. "As many young and attractive victors as possible," Haymitch corrects himself. "So, no. We'll be here.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Television, Want

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1305, Scholastic Inc.

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• It's your own fault for being so camera-ready," I tell Gale. If looks could kill.

  Suzanne Collins

  Faults, Gale, Looks

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• The feeling I have reminds me of New Year’s Eve, when the countdown is coming and I’m not quite sure whether to grab my camera or just live in the moment. Usually I grab the camera and later regret it when the picture doesn’t turn out. Then I feel enormously let down and think to myself that the night would have been more fun if it didn’t mean quite so much, if I weren’t forced to analyze where I’ve been and where I’m going.

  Emily Giffin

  New Year, Fun, Regret

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.12, Macmillan

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• Do you have a camera?" Jackson asked. "We could get some pictures and may be take a print or two if we're lucky." Jonas shook his head. "We'd probably get a bunch of ghosts and that would just freak me out.

  Christine Feehan

  Two, Lucky, May

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• We all know the sound a camera makes when it snaps a picture. Even some of the digitals do it for nostalgia’s sake.

  Jay Asher

  Sound, Sake, Nostalgia

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.49, Penguin

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• How are we doing, Simon?" she whispered into the small microphone in her collar. "Just about..." Simon started slowly. And then he stopped. "Wow." "What?" she asked, panic in her voice. "Nothing," he said too quickly. "What?" she asked again. "Well...it's just that...your boobs look even bigger on TV." Kat took that opportunity to turn and glare at the nearest security camera. In his bathroom stall thirty feet away, Simon nearly fell off the toilet.

  Ally Carter

  Opportunity, Voice, Feet

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• If a bout of "creepy face" sets in, the trick is to look away from the camera between shots and turn back only when necessary. This also limits how much of your soul the camera can steal.

  Tina Fey

  Soul, Creepy, Looks

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.90, Hachette UK

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• Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Doors, Closed Doors

  Margaret Bourke-White (2016). “Portrait of Myself”, p.99, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• If life were a camera, I'd have the lens cap on.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Lenses, Caps, Ifs

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• If someone falls down, pick them back up. Just because there's not a frickin camera in your face doesn't mean you don't have to look out for each other.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Fall, Mean, Looks

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• whether they'll write the story of my life as a tragedy or an epic fantasy... I was wondering if it was going to be a kiss at the end, or sad music and a sweeping camera shot over the fields I once roamed freely. I'm hoping for the kiss, but expecting the sweeping camera shot.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Writing, Kissing, Epic

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• <...> though he found that if you are stupid enough to bury a camera underground you won't be taking many pictures with it afterwards. Thus the story has no picture book for the period May 10, 1991 - January 7, 1992. But this is not important. It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! Thank you. Thank you.

  Jon Krakauer

  Memories, Stupid, Real

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• Everything looks stark and vivid and frozen, as though drawn precisely and outlined in ink - parents' smiles frozen, camera flashes blinding, mouths open and white teeth glinstening, dark glossy hair and deep blue sky and unrelenting light, everyone drowning in light - everything so clear and perfect I'm sure it must already be a memory, or a dream.

  Lauren Oliver

  Dream, Memories, Dark

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• It's like he would take a photograph of Sam, and the photograph would be beautiful. And he would think that the reason the photograph was beautiful was because of how he took it. If I took it, I would know that the only reason it's beautiful is because of Sam. I just think it's bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees the girl is better then the girl actually is. And I think it's bad when the most honest way a boy can look at a girl is through a camera. It's very hard for me to see Sam feel better about herself just because a boy sees her that way.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Beautiful, Girl, Feel Better

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Once I saw Paris Hilton leaving a restaurant in Hollywood and the paparazzi cameras were all over her. It looked so unpleasant. It wasn't because she didn't look sensational - she was that perfect combination of fashionable and slutty - it was because the paparazzi guys were shouting these insanely rude and intrusive questions at her. Like, asking her who she was sleeping with and stuff. I was kind of interested in the answer, so I was glad they asked, but it was still gross.

  Mindy Kaling

  Sleep, Paris, Perfect

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.59, Crown/Archetype

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• Abby must have been the one who found the safe house, because Townsend didn't like it. "The building across the street is under construction," he snarled as soon as we'd carried our bags inside. "The elevator has key card access, and I've hacked into the surveillance cameras from every system on the block," Abby argued. "We have a three-hundred-sixty-degree visual." "Excellent." Townsend dropped his bag. "Now the circle can see us from every angle." "Don't mind Agent Townsend, girls," Abby told us. "He's a glass-half-empty kind of spy." "Also known as the good kind," he countered. Abby huffed.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Block, Surveillance Cameras

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• As soon as I look up, his eyes click onto my face. The breath whooshes out of my body and everything freezes for a second, as though I’m looking at him through my camera lens, zoomed in all the way, the world pausing for that tiny span of time between the opening and closing of the shutter.

  Lauren Oliver

  Eye, Love At First Sight, Lenses

  Lauren Oliver (2014). “Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• Yes, they have to have a victor. Without a victor, the whole thing would blow up in the Gamemakers' faces. They'd have failed the Capitol. Might possibly even be executed, slowly and painfully, while the cameras broadcast it to every screen in the country.

  Suzanne Collins

  Country, Blow, Might

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.6, Scholastic Inc.

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