One of my favorite things to do is be in front of the camera and act.

quote by Angie Everhart
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When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera.

quote by William H. Macy
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We did very little improvisation on camera, and once in a while we did.

quote by Peter Tork
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csl Future Memories Mourns

chain smoking phantom
smile into camera lens
future memories mourns

poem by Terence George Craddock
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I'm able to move like no one else you've ever seen in front of a camera.

quote by Janice Dickinson
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If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.

quote by Sammy Davis, Jr.
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A Picture Of Two Farm Kids

the little girl
knows how to stare
at the camera
she does not know
how to smile
on her old tattered
clothes

you think the little boy
at her side
knows how to make
that compromising
smile

neither,
nor,
that is the truth

at the time when the
camera clicked

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poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

quote by Paul Sweeney
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Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.

quote by Matthew Vaughn
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I think the digital camera would record that information too fast for me.

quote by Kim Weston
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Beautiful drought!

Windy Windy Windy the wind sung!
This marked the beginning of the dry spell
This marked the beginning of death for beautiful cattle
This marked the beginning of the dry river bed
The beautiful countryside turned brown

Turrr Turrr Turrr Turrr rota sung!
The beautiful drought attracted it to the dusty village
The beautiful helicopter landed greeted by dust
The beautiful cameras came out black and shinning
The beautiful face of mum faced up looking at their water bottle

Click Click Click Click cameras sung!
This one will make a good front page picture
This one is even better because she is beautiful
This one is so thin and has no cloths on but traditional beads
This one is the dying beauty that will make newspapers sell

Turrr Turrr Turrr Turrr rota sung!
The beautiful journalists hopped in happily

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poem by Nyota Yasulwe
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I confess it, I love the camera. When it's not on me, I'm not quite alive.

quote by Genevieve Bujold
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The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

quote by W. Eugene Smith
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The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.

quote by Andre Kertesz
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You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on!

quote by Peter Falk
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A Jeremiad

As the swimmer propelled himself through the watery furrows
His arms thrashing admirably to clear a path
His legs churning admirably to push and be pulled
Into the vaccuum created by his sweeping arms
The cameras followed his course from every conceivable angle
Even-yes, even from below, leaving nothing to the imagination
The TV viewer being denied not a single drop
Not a single breath or gasp for air:
Such coverage is, indeed, admirable-
Nothing is left to the dull imagination:
To the dull imagination, thrashing away behind closed lids.
Nothing at all.
Soon, when there has long been nothing to imagine
When image replaces imagination, entirely,
When 'news' replaces reason entirely
When imagination is replaced entirely by technology
And reality by its virtual version
Imagination will prove an unnecessary, even risky, commodity
Soon the imagination will prove an encumbrance
And be forbidden completely by people with cameras and badges.

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poem by Morgan Michaels
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If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.

quote by Lewis Hine
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I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.

quote by Lady Gaga
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Poetry daily

We try our poetry daily
Under the pale sky
With fluffy clouds
And silver-lined streams.
In the river evenings
Men too get thrown in
On the river bed, pale
But glowing in shapes
Their textures tell-tale
In the dusk of the camera.
The camera speaks poems
As the sun’s gold grows
And the river shimmers.

poem by Jagannath rao Adukuri
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One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

quote by Dorothea Lange
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