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• Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don't have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Inspiration, Humor, Glasses

  Los Angeles Magazine, Volume 44, No. 11 (p. 169), November 1999.

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• Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.

  Len Wein

  Gone, Stories, Sometimes

  "Speaking with...LEN WEIN". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

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• But rather that we should lose our sense that neither can become the other, that the traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lense and the Cinerama screen tend to narrow it.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Cinema, Form, Angle

  "The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America".

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• A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.

  Aaron Huey

  Real, Thinking, Understanding

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• I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.

  Keanu Reeves

  Moving, Light, Giving

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• Because I am a horrible flincher, contact lenses are not an option. I'm always envious of contact-wearers. There are endless reasons to take off one's glasses during the day and, as I have grown older, what I don't see has become increasingly pronounced.

  Sloane Crosley

  Glasses, Reason, Envious

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• It all depends on which side of the desk you're sitting on.

  Len Wein

  Office, Sides, Sitting

  "Speaking with...LEN WEIN". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

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• Men are lenses through which we read our own minds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.6

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• I have a thing with the camera. The lens is unconditional. It doesn't judge you.

  Debra Winger

  Judging, Cameras, Unconditional

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• Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, People, Mind

  "Representative Men". Uses of Great Men. Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1850.

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• If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm.

  Orson Welles

  Believe, Film, Possibility

  Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.42, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Paparazzi need more flattering lenses.

  Sandra Bullock

  Needs, Paparazzi, Flattering

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• Times have changed; so must the lenses through which we see the political future.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Times Have Changed, Political, Changed

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• When I started on 'Saturday Night Live,' I had the choice of wearing contact lenses, which I had never worn before, or glasses, in order to be able to read the cue cards.

  Tina Fey

  Night, Glasses, Order

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• Most unhappy people need to learn just one lesson: how to see themselves through the lens of genuine compassion, and treat themselves accordingly.

  Martha Beck

  Compassion, People, Unhappy

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• They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that.

  Andy Garcia

  Long, Naked, Nudity

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Artist, Choices, Environmental

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• In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.

  Alan Dundes

  Light, Trying, Culture

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• Your home should be your home. People shouldn't be allowed to use whatever crazy lenses they use to catch you waking up in the morning.

  Sarah Chalke

  Morning, Crazy, Home

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• There was something about Marilyn. She couldn't act her way out of a bag, but she became an icon because something happened between her and the lens, and no one knows what it is.

  Richard Widmark

  Icons, Bags, Way

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• I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to... It's a whole different lens you look through the older you get.

  Andre Agassi

  Thinking, Careers, Appreciate

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• I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips.

  Len Wein

  Fire, Rays, Fingertips

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• Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.

  Len Wein

  Titles, Looks, Concern

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• I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.

  Len Wein

  Best Effort, Judgment, I Realized

  "Speaking with...LEN WEIN PART ONE". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

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• Len and I had parted musical ways and this was one of the problems.

  Suzi Quatro

  Musical, Way, Problem

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