Smile For The Camera

I see you standing out there in the hall
You seem so nervous waiting for his call
I focus on you
I reach for the lens
The shutter snaps again
(smile)
Smile for the camera
You know
(smile)
The camera never ever lies
Ive been watching you with
Eager hungry eyes
For sometime
(smile)
I hold my lens in the middle of the night
Visions of you dancing in the strobe light
Up on my wall is a picture or two
Of someone who looks like you
(smile)
Smile for the camera

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song performed by Rick Springfield
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When Devil tempts us, God installs hidden cameras.

aphorism by Hasier Agirre, translated by Dan Costinaş
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I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

classic quote by John Steinbeck
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Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion.

quote by Jim Fowler
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The camera lies all the time; lies 24 times/second.

quote by Brian De Palma
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Stage is much more intimidating than going before the cameras, because you can really screw up, and can't do a retake.

quote by Daniel Radcliffe
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The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

quote by Al Gore
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The thrill of being in front of a camera remains exactly the same.

quote by Julie Andrews
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We're not cameras, we're artists.

quote by Frank Bruno
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It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see.

quote by James Baldwin
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

quote by Dorothea Lange
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I was at a luncheon; and some cameras were trained on us. I dont' know whether they were for television or not. You know how little I know about cameras.

quote by June Allyson
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I prefer full-length camera shots because the body can act better than the face.

classic quote by Alec Guinness
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Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche.

quote by Joshua Leonard
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It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.

quote by Annie Leibovitz
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The film camera's ability to physically move through space, not zoom through space - every time we have a video camera the movement is through zoom; every time we have a film camera it is a physical movement.

quote by Atom Egoyan
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Men In Black

You believe it (you better)
I got their number
Classic camcorder
I saw everything
Dinner plate specials
The shapes of cucumber
Im going to the papers
I am going to sing
In the cool, cool night
And in the middle of the day
Im watching my back
Im waiting my visitation
From the men in black
Are they grey or is it my own nation?
Its been a good year
Its been a good summer
I wait for the door or that phone to ring
Our little race
I dont want to fall
So just in case

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song performed by Frank Black
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But slowly I began to use cameras and then think about what it was that was going on. It took me a long time, I mean I actually played with cameras and photography for about 20 years.

quote by David Hockney
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Ol Mulholland

You believe if (you better)
I got their number
Classic camcorder
I saw everything
Dinner plate specials
The shapes of cucumber
I'm going to the papers
I am going to sing
In the cool, cool night
And in the middle of the day
I'm watching my back
I'm waiting my visitation
From the mem in black
Are they grey or is it my own nation?
It's been a good year
It's been a good summer
I wait for the door or that phone to ring
Our little race
I don't want to fail
So just in case

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song performed by Frank Black
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A Kyoto garden in Spring

How wise
the cherry trees
to ignore the cameras!

poem by Michael Shepherd
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