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“I can't know what I'm going to do before I'm in front of the lens. And I think that sort of makes it exciting.”

Thinking Knows I Can Fronts Exciting Lenses

“Occupy provided me a lens through which to see systemic discrimination.”

“Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.”

“I have some advantages of viewing from the two lenses, the two perspectives. I think that a lot of visual artists who come back here from the United States and are Cambodian also write from their American references - looking inside the old culture, and looking at themselves as an American looking into the country where they were born.”

Thinking Writing Two Country States Artist Culture Born United United States Perspective Advantage Visuals Lenses Visual Art Visual Artist Old Culture

Author:Chath Piersath

“I write and I write and a lot of times I go back to the American lens, though sometimes it's a struggle to come from that perspective.”

Writing Sometimes Struggle Perspective Lenses

Author:Chath Piersath

“You have to kind of be invisible when you photograph children, so you use a longer lens.”

Kind Children Use Photograph Invisible Lenses

Author:David Bailey

“I think the recent cluster of WWII novels is so good because we have reached an optimal distance from the war. Just as a lens has its focal length, the novel also has its best distance from the action.”

Thinking War Action Novel Distance Length Lenses Wwii Optimal Clusters

Author:Chris Cleave

“I don't think I can break down any doors, but I'm thinking, "Maybe I can be a cameraman, because I love the cameras." And the cameraman would show me how to thread the film, how to repair it, the lenses. That's when you become, like, goony goo-goo about it. You breathe and eat camera, and all of a sudden, you don't want anything else in the world. You finally know, "This is my calling." When you're passionate about something, it doesn't become work. It's art and it's fun. It's arduous, it's sweaty.”

Thinking Knows World Want Art I Can Shows Film Fun Break Doors Calling Cameras Passionate Breathe Working It Thread Show Me Breaking Down Lenses Cameraman

Author:Pam Grier

“If you clear that negative feeling and forgive yourself, then you can see the world from a different lens. You stop attracting that same type of experience. You can set yourself free.”

Ifs World Different Feelings Clear Type Negative Forgiving Lenses Forgive Yourself Negative Feelings

Author:Gabrielle Bernstein

“["War Horse"] does have action as well, but we allow the audience to appreciate the environment where these characters are from because the lens shapes the people, as we know.”

People Knows Wells Doe War Character Action Audience Environment Shapes Appreciate Horse Lenses War Horse

Author:Janusz Kaminski

“When a child is thriving, there is no reason to spend time assessing intelligences. But when a child is NOT thriving - in school or at home - that is the time to apply the lens of multiple intelligences and see whether one can find ways to help the child thrive in different environments.”

Way Children Different Reason Helping Home School Environment Thrive No Reason Multiple End Times Lenses Spend Time Assessing Different Environments Multiple Intelligences

Author:Howard Gardner

“I started meditating and as soon as I turned that lens of attention inwards, it was like, okay, game over. This is what I'd been looking for to resolve some of these inner conflicts and pains.”

Pain Games Attention Conflict Okay Resolve Lenses Meditating Inner Conflict Game Over

Author:Mark Coleman

“Mindfulness is the ability to be aware, to note, to notice. When we apply that to our thoughts and mental habits, we bring a clarity of awareness in seeing what's just an ordinary thought and what's a judging thought that's pejorative or putting us down in some way. So, we first bring that lens of awareness, and then we can do all kinds of different strategies. We can inquire.”

Way Firsts Kind Different Can Do Ability Seeing Awareness Judging Habit Mindfulness Ordinary Strategy Notes All Kinds Clarity Our Thoughts Lenses

Author:Mark Coleman

“I find myself trying to translate a lot of the things whirring passed my subjective lens into language I can make sense of, then that tribal tongue becomes rap-language and for whatever reason some people on the internet really like that. To y'all I'm eternally indebted.”

People Trying I Can Reason Language Internet Rap Tongue Make Sense Translate Lenses Subjective Indebted

Author:Milo

“It's true that I don't think I'd be a good director. If I were a director, I'd try to hire the best people I could and then leave them alone. I don't know much about cameras or lighting, so I'd make sure that I had a really good cameraman who understood lenses and lighting, and I say to him, "This is the scene we have to shoot and this is what I think it should be, you go do it." Same with actors. But really, very good directors who know everything do basically the same thing. They hire you and then they leave you alone.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Should Trying Actors Scene Directors Understood Cameras Very Good Be You Lenses Lighting Good Directors Cameraman

Author:Christopher Walken

“When you understand the purpose [of life], then you can deal and journey through the obstacles, the rejections, the stops and starts, highs-and-lows with a different lens because you know that you're moving in what you're supposed to do.”

Knows Different Moving Purpose Deals Journey Lows Obstacles Rejection Purpose Of Life Lenses Moving In Highs And Lows

Author:Aisha Hinds

“There was one moment when J. Edgar Hoover and us had the same distorted lens about who we were - "a real threat," you know? He thought so and we thought so and we were buddies in that regard.”

Knows Real Moments Regard Threat Lenses Buddy Hoover J Edgar Hoover

Author:Bill Ayers

“People underestimate the power of the Internet. For some consumers, it is the source of all information. Younger adults are on their phones more than they watch television. They don't read newspapers. It is their real world. It is not a set of virtual lenses.”

People World Real Watches Information Television Source Internet Adults Phones Newspapers Consumers Real World Underestimate Lenses

Author:Michael J. Silverstein

“This uses a lens system, which I have used for years in various different ways, but I've never used it in the context of an interview. This is the very first time that I've done that. It's a lens called The Revolution, so it allowed me to interview Elsa [Dorfman] and actually operate the camera. Well one of the cameras, because there were four cameras there.”

Way Years Firsts Wells Different Done Use Used Four Revolution First Time Cameras Various Different Ways Interviews Lenses Elsa

Author:Errol Morris

“I never wanted/expected to write a memoir, but this life thing, it has a way of sideswiping our worlds, scaring us so thoroughly that our past lenses of contextualizing events don't work - they cease to matter.”

World Way Writing Matter Wanted Past Events Expected Cease Memoir This Life Our World Our Past Lenses

Author:Joshua Mohr

“There's nothing easy or simple or even entertaining (in our contemporary American sense of that word) in disciplining our minds to "see" reality through biblical lenses; it takes effort and time. But Christians who don't take that effort and time will inevitably succumb to some of the anti-biblical and anti-Christian messages that bombard us every day through advertising, entertainment, etc.”

Mind Reality Christian Easy Simple Effort Messages Entertainment Contemporary Advertising Etc Entertaining Biblical Lenses Anti Christian Effort And Time

Author:Roger E. Olson

“Independent of the critique I'm making, I'm just trying to paint a more comprehensive portrait of American religion than you get from a right versus left, religious conservatives versus secular liberal, believer versus atheist, binary. Too often, we just look at religion in America through that kind of either/or lens. I think it's much more complicated than that.”

Thinking Trying Looks Kind America Left Religious Independent Paint Atheist Complicated Believer Secular Portraits Versus Lenses Comprehensive Critique Binary Either Or

Author:Ross Douthat

“I hope that this [hacking] does not continue to be viewed purely through a partisan lens.I think there are Republicans as well as Democrats who are concerned about this.”

Thinking Wells Doe Republican Concerned Democrat Lenses Partisans Hacking

Author:Barack Obama

“I'm educating myself more about world poetry. I know a lot about contemporary American poetry, so I felt I needed to learn more about figures like Borges, Akhmatova, Neruda, etc. I felt I needed a bigger lens to see poetry through. It really helps to see poetry as a world language, and not just something American.”

Knows World Helping Language Felt Figures Needed Bigger Contemporary Etc Lenses Borges American Poetry

Author:Allison Joseph

“Barack Obama didn't say "I only want to be the President of Black people," he said "I want to be the President of the United States and have something to say about the United States and my perspective and my lens is going to affect my judgment on everything" and that's the way a Christian should be. I'm going to invade culture and my lens and perspective is going to influence culture just as much as anyone else's.”

People Way Want Should Said States Christian Culture Black President United United States Influence Perspective Judgment Barack Black People Lenses

Author:LeCrae

“To be honest, there are many things said about Russia because they have been demonized for years at the behest of the USA. It is part of the greatness of a European country to develop one's own opinion and to not view everything through the US lens. We have no lesson to teach Russia if we concurrently roll out the red carpet to Qatar, Saudi Arabia and China.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Said Country Views Opinion Teach Honest Greatness Lessons Red China Russia Being Honest Usa Lenses Carpet Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Red Carpet European Countries Qatar

Author:Marine Le Pen

“My mission is to change the way people see the world. Everybody has a perspective or a lens they see things through, and hopefully I can adjust that lens or change that lens so that they see things from a different perspective, a different lens.”

People World Way I Can Different Perspective Missions Hopefully Lenses Different Perspective

Author:LeCrae

“I don't think money can be understood through a lens limited to economics. And most books about money tell you the history of money, the instrument. But money is also an idea, one that we exchange to survive.”

Thinking Book Ideas Understood Economics Instruments Lenses

Author:Kabir Sehgal

“There is a mystique about psychiatry that people think that you have some kind of a magical lens, you know, Superman's X-ray vision into the soul. One of the reasons I left psychiatry is that I didn't believe that.”

People Thinking Knows Believe Kind Soul Reason Left Vision Rays Lenses Psychiatry Mystique

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.”

World Humans Conditions Fundamentals Human Condition Lenses

Author:Madeleine M. Kunin

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

Artist Choices Environmental Lenses

Author:Annie Leibovitz

“I see everything through a spiritual lens.”

Spiritual Lenses

Author:Katy Perry

“Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.”

Eye Truth Work Ability Beauty Virtue Contact Lenses Competence Competent Beholder Eye Of The Beholder Competencies Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder Contact Lenses

Book:The Peter Principle

Source: The Peter Principle

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

Political Changed Lenses Times Have Changed

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“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.”

World Giving Light Moving Stuff Term Acting Crosses Performances Cameras Photographer Backgrounds Lenses Filters Moving In Foreground

Author:Keanu Reeves

“Every year or so, I try to do something; it keeps me refreshed as to what's going on in front of the lens, and I understand what the actor is going through.”

Trying Years Actors Fronts Lenses

Author:Martin Scorsese

“It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.”

Ifs Believe Looks Persons Facts Film Faces Levels Mystery Missing Staring Lenses Thrillers Missing You

Author:Kevin Spacey

“I don't know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.”

Knows Trying Happens Know How Normal And Love Glasses Lenses Normal Life Abnormal Telescopes Magnifying Magnifying Glass Normal And Abnormal

Author:Taylor Swift

“It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation.”

People Wells Ideas Different Beautiful Band Conversation Endless Hopefully Topics Lenses

Author:Ville Valo

“That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.”

People Writing Looks Different Romance Bits Aspect Meetings New Things Lenses Lyrical Back In The Day Meeting New People

Author:Ville Valo

“To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.”

Way Whole Artist Color Shapes Incredibles Appearance Makeup Lenses Prescriptions Accessories Eyewear

Author:Vera Wang

“A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.”

Ifs Writing Matter Periods Buying Lenses

Author:Len Wein

“There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.”

Should Universe Ancient Destroyed Legends Lenses

Author:Len Wein

“I hate the crazy, neurotic characters beyond a certain point.”

Character Certain Hate Crazy I Hate Lenses Neurotic

Author:Len Wein

“I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.”

Thinking Trying Past Mess Lenses

Author:Len Wein

“I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.”

Trying Character Worst Core Lenses Sympathetic Despicable

Author:Len Wein

“I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.”

Character Nature New York Birth Creating Jew Lenses Neurotic Creating Characters

Author:Len Wein

“I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important.”

Important Differences Down And Sat Theme Plot Lenses

Author:Len Wein

“If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.”

Ifs Stories Lenses

Author:Len Wein

“In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.”

Ifs Ideas Home Sentences Lenses Halfway Captivating Single Relationship Halfway Home

Author:Len Wein

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