Snapshots Quotes - Page 5

This is a perfect snapshot of the West at twilight. On the one hand, governments of developed nations microregulate every aspect of your life in the interests of 'keeping you safe.' ... On the other hand, when it comes to 'keeping you safe' from real threats, such as a millenarian theocracy that claims universal jurisdiction, America and its allies do nothing. ... It is now certain that Tehran will get its nukes, and very soon. This is the biggest abdication of responsibility by the Western powers since the 1930s.

Mark Steyn

Real, Twilight, Responsibility

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Cinematography was incredibly foreign to me, so I read as much as I could about it. Once I figured out that it was just photography with a set shutter speed, I got some slide film and I just went about storyboarding the script and taking snapshots. I took a ton of time doing it just to make sure I knew exactly what I was doing. By the end of it I knew what the film was going to look like - my exposure and the composition and everything. I wasn't scared of cinematography anymore.

Shane Carruth

Photography, Looks, Scripts

Source: www.indiewire.com

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On issue after issue, the polls - and these are not snapshot polls; these are polls over a consistent period of time - show that most Americans share what one could call core liberal or progressive values: investment in health care and education over tax cuts; fair trade over free trade; corporate accountability over deregulation; environmental protection over laissez-faire policies; defending Social Security and Medicare over privatizing them; raising the minimum wage over eliminating it. The country prefers progressive alternatives to the failed policies of the conservative right.

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Country, Health, Cutting

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There is something about this process, and about the whole 8 x 10 [camera] business, that takes it out of the arena of the snapshot, even though, of course, I'm always desperate for that feeling. I wanted those family pictures to look effortless. I wanted them to look like snapshots. And some of them did.

Sally Mann

Feelings, Cameras, Looks

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If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.

James Bovard

Government, One Day, Noble

"Talkin' to America" with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org.

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I think that there's a tendency in this town to try to selectively pick snapshots, when the broader reality is that we have a record of results and that we're getting things done for the American people.

Scott McClellan

Thinking, Reality, People

"Ports Showdown Averted, White House Relieved". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. March 10, 2006.

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Color was the palette of commercial photography and snapshot photography.

Martin Parr

Photography, Color, Palette

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All too frequently the amateur will purchase a fine modern camera and proceed to use it for making the most elementary simple snapshots. This surely is like playing 'Chopsticks' on a concert grand piano.

Sam Haskins

Simple, Piano, Cameras

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Learning that aesthetic as a kid - seeing those photos - made me think that that's what photos are supposed to look like. I never understood snapshots. I was looking at them like, "This is horrible; that's not what a picture is supposed to look like." I was taught by these photos. So when I picked up the camera, though I had never done it before, I kind of already knew what I was doing.

Jeff Vespa

Kids, Thinking, Cameras

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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No, every album is something like a snapshot. It only shows one moment in time. It shows what we feel and think right at that point in time, nothing more and nothing less

Damon Albarn

Thinking, Albums, Moments

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In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.

Adrienne Rich

Cutting, Light, Self

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What most artists using photography feel that they need to do is to show that they are serious, that they are not taking snapshots. To point a camera at something does not qualify you as an artist because everybody has done that.

Wolfgang Tillmans

Photography, Artist, Cameras

"Snap decisions" by Jonathan Jones, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2000.

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How many snapshots in the world were actually just-after shots, the moment that elicited the shooter to press the button never captured; instead, the detritus just following, the laughter, the reaction, the ripples.

Reif Larsen

Laughter, Buttons, World

Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.137, Penguin

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I was a make believe ethnographer: treating New Yorkers like an explorer would treat Zulus - searching for the rawest snapshot, the zero degree of photography.

William Klein

Photography, Zero, Believe

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But sometimes everything I write
with the threadbare art of my eye
seems a snapshot

Robert Lowell

Art, Eye, Writing

Robert Lowell (1979). “Robert Lowell: a tribute”

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Every snapshot collector has obsessions. Some only collect photos of cars. Others like World War II, or babies, or old-timey girls in old-timey swimsuits. I happen to collect the weird stuff: photos that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up a little. The uncanny.

Ransom Riggs

Girl, Baby, War

"9 Creepy Photos That Appear In ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children’" by Ransom Riggs, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2011.

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I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I wind up sitting on the floor, paralyzed by grief and nostalgia.

Francine Prose

Children, Grief, Book

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Songs are snapshots of things - it's likened to looking at pictures.

Michael Benjamin Lerner

Song

Source: www.avclub.com

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I made songs really for myself - I didn't ever expect to put it out there and make this a record for mass consumption, this was really just a way for me to get out of my own situation and reclaim that part of myself - so when making the songs, I wanted a testament to what I'd gone through, I wanted a snapshot of those moments.

Frank Iero

Song, Gone, Records

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Snapshots that have been taken of me working show something I was not aware of at all, that over and over again I'm holding my own body or my own hands exactly like the person I'm photographing. I never knew I did that, and obviously what I'm doing is trying to feel, actually physically feel, the way he or she feels at the moment I'm photographing them in order to deepen the sense of connection.

Richard Avedon

Taken, Hands, Order

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I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.

Yo-Yo Ma

Blessed, Interesting, People

"Every day is a holiday for Yo-Yo Ma". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. November 12, 2008.

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When painting a landscape it is desirable to walk through the clumps and around the bushes, around the trees, the houses and the rocks. Familiarizing yourself in this way with the subject, you will get a better concept of the thing and not a visual and false snapshot.

John French Sloan

Rocks, House, Tree

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I don't want to be a slave to electronic devices. I don't want to be connected to my friends. I don't want to send snapshots of my dog and cute pictures of my family life to my friends and family. I don't want to be liked, by pushing a button. I use all of this technology to basically replace devices that I had in the past which worked just fine.

Harrison Ford

Cute, Dog, Past

"Harrison Ford, Liam Hemsworth, Amber Heard, Lucas Till, and Director Robert Luketic Talk PARANOIA, Real-Life Parallels, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 12, 2013.

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When painting portraits a lot of people say, 'Why not get a photograph of the person?' Photography is wonderful and it is an art form in itself, but... my portrait is a culmination of elements... a truer image of a person than just the 'click' of a snapshot.

Jamie Wyeth

Photography, Art, People

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Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of 1 per cent of the earths history.

Bill Bryson

Looks, Earth, Cents

Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.168, Lulu Press, Inc

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