Zoom Quotes

• When in doubt, zoom out.

  Reggie Watts

  Doubt, When In Doubt

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• Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.

  David Bailey

  Photographer, Enough, Ifs

  "The old Bailey" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2002.

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• I like to zoom out of the situation so I can see it all and don't get caught up in the little things down there.

  Ali Banisadr

  Littles, Little Things, Caught

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I do believe that everything can look beautiful if you look at it from outside. The closer you zoom in, most of us exhibit behaviour that is strange to someone from outside.

  Susanne Wuest

  Beautiful, Believe, Looks

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• Fame is a four-letter word; and like tape or zoom or face or pain or life or love, what ultimately matters is what we do with it.

  Fred Rogers

  Pain, Tape, Four

  "The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember".

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• The best zoom lens is your legs.

  Ernst Haas

  Photography, Lenses, Legs

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• If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Fall, Teaching, Assessment

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• Sometimes, I feel like I can do anything, and, sometimes, I'm so alive, sometimes, I feel like I could zoom across the sky and, sometimes, I wanna cry.

  Michael Franti

  Sky, Alive, Sometimes

  "Song: "Sometimes" ("Stay Human")". 2001.

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• If you zoom close-if you get really close to someone, if you really get close to yourself-then you lose the other person, you lose yourself entirely. You get so close you can't see anything anymore.

  David Levithan

  Losing Yourself, Persons, Ifs

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• Here's what I say: We will ignore the cult of doom and gloom and embrace the cause of zoom and boom. We will laugh at the stupidity of evil and hate, and summon the brilliance of praise and create. . . Life is crazily in love with us-wildly and innocently in love with us. The universe always gives us exactly what we need, exactly when we need it.

  Rob Brezsny

  Hate, Doom And Gloom, Evil

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• In a world where the great technologies enable us to record, replay, cut and paste, zoom in, and delete, listening is the crucial commitment to keep the heart touchable.

  Mark Nepo

  Heart, Commitment, Cutting

  Mark Nepo (2012). “Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• This is the power of art: The power to transcend our own self-interest, our solipsistic zoom-lens on life, and relate to the world and each other with more integrity, more curiosity, more wholeheartedness.

  Maria Popova

  Art, Integrity, Self

  "What Is Art? Favorite Famous Definitions, from Antiquity to Today" by Maria Popova, www.brainpickings.org. June 22, 2012.

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• I shot the way I wanted to shoot [in The Hateful Eight]. The only real disadvantage I felt at the time, but I don't feel now, was that we weren't able to get a zoom lens, and I had really gotten used to using a zoom lens for that little zoom creep. But it was also a nice thing to be forced to not use all the tools that you've gotten used to, from time to time, and to be able to work in a different way.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Real, Nice, Eight

  Source: collider.com

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• We are no longer the knights who say Ni! We are now the knights who say ekki-ekki-ekki-pitang-zoom-boing!

  Graham Chapman

  Change, Knights, Holy Grail

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• I think of the medium as a people-to-people medium, not cameraman-to-people, not direction-to-people, not writers-to-people, but people-to-peopleYou can only involve an audience with people. You can't involve them with gimmicks, with sunsets, with hand-held cameras, zoom shots, or anything else. They couldn't care less about those things. But you give them something to worry about, some person they can worry about, and care about, and you've got them, you've got them involved.

  Frank Capra

  Sunset, Thinking, Hands

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• Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.

  Keith Richards

  Black And White, Glorious, White

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• Gene Mean, look at our body. Cameraman, zoom!

  The Iron Sheik

  Mean, Wrestling, Looks

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• In romance we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Opposites, Romance, Details

  "Should I cut an old friend out of my life?" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2013.

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• Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is our flawed selves, alone and struggling.(page 68)

  Brené Brown

  Struggle, Self, Feelings

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• We spend so much time, these days, on forms of literature that don't rise to be literature, and I'm speaking about Twitter posts and quick and hot takes on different websites. We sort of zoom from thing to thing like a hummingbird.

  Ben H. Winters

  Hot, Different, Literature

  Source: www.slate.com

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• He says he had to go help someone in a desperate situation. Who, exactly, he refuses to say. He doesn’t know when he’s going to be back, but suggests we put off the wedding for a few days. The rotter! How dare he just zoom off and not tell me where he’s going, or who he’s going to help, or what exactly he’s up to!” Yeah, how dare he go out and be all heroic and stuff when you want him here slobbering over your big boobs.

  Katie MacAlister

  Desperate Situations, Want, Stuff

  Katie Macalister (2007). “Holy Smokes: An Aisling Grey, Guardian, Novel”, p.101, Penguin

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• Death Race was a very modern action movie and it used all of those modern action techniques with lots of hand-held camera, lots of punchy zooms, and lots of quick movements and quick cuts. In 3D, I didn't want to do that anymore.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Cutting, Race, Hands

  Source: collider.com

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• What remains of your past if you didn't allow yourself to feel it when it happened? If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories.

  David Rakoff

  Memories, Past, Moments

  FaceBook post by David Rakoff from Mar 05, 2017

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• Empathy zooms you in on an individual and, as a result, it's narrow, it's innumerate, it's racist, it's very biased.

  Paul Bloom

  Empathy, Racist, Individual

  "Paul Bloom: The Trouble With Empathy". Interview with Allyson Kirkpatrick, www.guernicamag.com. February 1, 2016.

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• I had taken the photograph from afar (distance being the basic glitch in our relationship), using my Nikon and zoom lens while hiding behind a fake marble pillar. I was hiding because if he knew I'd been secretly photographing him for all these months he would think I was immature, neurotic and obsessive. I'm not. I'm an artist. Artists are always misunderstood.(Thwonk)

  Joan Bauer

  Distance, Taken, Artist

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