Cameras Quotes - Page 31

• When I look out [the window] at the big houses on either side of the road, it's obvious we've entered the rich side of town. Poor people don't post signs like NO TRESPASSING, PRIVATE DRIVE, PRIVATE PROPERTY, MONITORED BY CAMERA SURVEILLANCE. I should know because I've been poor my entire life, and the only person I know who ever posted a sign like these is my friend...and he actually stole the sign off a rich guy's yard.

  Simone Elkeles

  People, House, Guy

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• I thought about the cameras following me in the terminal and pictured my family watching my entrance on TV. I hoped they’d be proud.

  Kiera Cass

  Proud, Tvs, My Family

  Kiera Cass (2015). “The Selection Series 4-Book Collection: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Heir”, p.41, HarperCollins

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• Everyone pretends to be normal and be your best friend, but underneath, everyone is living some other life you don't know about, and if only we had a camera on us at all times, we could go and watch each other's tapes and find out what each of us was really like.

  James Franco

  Watches, Tape, Normal

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• He understands now why kisses in movies are filmed the way they are, with the camera endlessly circling, circling: the ground is unsteady under his.

  Cassandra Clare

  Kissing, Way

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• There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with a finish line.... People will always be waiting at a particular finish line: journalists with their cameras, impatient crowds eager to call the race, astounded to see the scientists approach, pass the mark, and keep running. It's a common misunderstanding, he said. They conclude there was no race. As long as we won't commit to knowing everything, the presumption is we know nothing.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Running, Race, Knowing Everything

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• The railway was part scalpel, part movie camera, slicing the city open, parading its inner workings at fifty frames per second. It was on the S-Bahn that she felt least abandoned, as if the act of travelling turned back the clock, and brought her nearer to the future she had lost.

  Philip Sington

  Cities, Fifty, Clock

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• Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers.

  Pat Conroy

  People, Lenses, Shy

  Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese

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• It's strange, the lack of emotion, the absence of drama in reality. When things happen in real life, extraordinary things, there's no music, there's no dah-dah-daaahhs. There's no close-ups. No dramatic camera angles. Nothing happens. Nothing stops, the rest of the world goes on.

  Kevin Brooks

  Drama, Real, Goes On

  Kevin Brooks (2003). “Martyn Pig”, p.33, Scholastic

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• And in more than half the pictures, she isn't looking at the camera; she's looking at him. Not the way I would look at Ben Parish, all squishy around the eyes. She looks at Evan fiercely, like, This here? It's mine

  Rick Yancey

  Eye, Looks, Half

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.186, Penguin UK

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• On the brilliance of James Brown's dancing − and the frustrations of bad camera-work on dancers:cers: I think James Brown is a genius you know when he's with the Famous Flames, unbelievable. I used to watch him on television and I used to get angry at the camera-man because whenever he would really start to dance they would be on a close-up so I couldn't see his feet. I'd shout "Show him! Show him!", so I could watch and learn.

  Michael Jackson

  Dance, Frustration, Men

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• It's difficult, if not impossible, to get away with anything false before the camera. That instrument penetrates the husk of the actor; it reveals what's truly happening - if anything, if nothing. A close-up demands absolute truth. It's a severe and awesome truth

  Elia Kazan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Acting

  Elia Kazan (2011). “Elia Kazan: A Life”, p.485, Knopf

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• Only photograph what you love.

  Tim Walker

  Inspirational, Photography, Photographer

  Tim Walker (2008). “Pictures”, p.28, teNeues

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• I'm sometimes asked why it is that for 30 years we seem to have trouble in the United States enforcing the rules against illegal immigration, and I'll tell you what the answer is. The answer is that when the television cameras turn off and the spotlight moves to something else, there are a host of interest groups and advocacy groups who work very, very hard to make it difficult to enforce these rules. I'm not commenting adversely on their motivation, but I can tell you the effect of all of this is to wear down the ability of an agency to enforce the law.

  Michael Chertoff

  Motivation, Moving, Agency

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• We've got a nation of people who have one eye looking out for the next speed camera, another looking for a speed limit sign and another looking at the speedometer - which is a bit of a shame, when you only have two eyes.

  Paul Smith

  Clever, Eye, Two

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• The camera has always been a guide, and it's allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn't even notice.

  Don Chadwick

  Photography, Average, Focus

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• Baby she look like a star, but only on camera, only on camera, only on camera.

  Drake

  Love, Baby, Stars

  Song: Cameras, Album: Take Care, 2011

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• I can't live and hold the camera, someone gotta take this

  Drake

  Life, Humble, I Can

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• For many years I had an impression of my golf swing, which was that I vividly resembled Tom Weiskopf in the takeaway and Dave Marr on the downswing. Unfortunately, there came a day when I was invited to have my golf swing filmed via a video camera. Something I will never do again. When it was played back, what I saw - what you would have seen - was not Weiskopf and Marr but a man simultaneously climbing into a sweater and falling out of a tree.

  Alistair Cooke

  Fall, Golf, Men

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.146, Arcade Publishing

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• At times those skills were really hard to do because not only was I having to contend with the camera, but I was having to learn these new skills and the ball was always kind of doing what you didn't want it to do. So it got a little bit frustrating at times but we got there.

  Parminder Nagra

  Hard Times, Skills, Balls

  Interview by Steve Head, www.ign.com. August 7, 2003.

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• When you hand someone a camera, why do they act like you just asked them to dissemble a bomb? They take it and they're like, 'What do I do ... I don't really ... ha-huh ...' Yeah, it's the button on the top right where it always is since the beginning of #*@! time!

  Dane Cook

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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• Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.

  Susan Sontag

  Travel, Fun, Vacation

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.11, Macmillan

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• Anytime it was advertised that I was going to be at a particular place, the radicals would be there, the cameras with TV news.

  William Westmoreland

  Military, Tv News, Would Be

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• There is a part of me that still wants to go out and grab a backpack and unplug - not take a cellphone or even a camera and just get out there and experience the world and travel. I have yet to do that, but someday I hope.

  Emilio Estevez

  Travel, World, Want

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• You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering.

  John Dykstra

  Travel, Mph, Engineering

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• Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight. And after I've finished "shooting," my unharmed victims are still around for others to enjoy. I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans.

  James Stewart

  Animal, Hunting, Rights

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