I can't shut down iphoto, it continues to say "photos are being imported to the library"

I tried to download about 70 photos from my camera and it kept saying 1 photo remaining for over 30 minutes so I removed my camera and just figured there was something wrong with the download. Now, when I try to shut down iphoto it continues to say "Photos are being imported to the photo library. Please wait for import to complete." This has been going on now for 2 hours.

Type Command+Option+Esc and in the Force Quite Applications window select iPhoto and force quit it.
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apple menu ==> force Quit
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Welcome to Apple Support Communities
If you are not transferring photos, force quit iPhoto. Press Alt, Command and Esc keys or go to  > Force Quit, choose iPhoto and force quit it

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Open Activity monitor in Utilities, go to the CPU tab>All Processes, and note any process that would appear to be related to importing photos, such as iPhoto, and use Force Quit. This may only be a temporary fix, as it may start all over again when you reboot. If that happens, we need to do some more investigating.
Also, close all open Applications, then open Terminal in Utilities and copy/paste and hit return, then post the output of this command.
lsof -l +L -R -V | grep /

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