IPhoto is stuck on import and it wont even let me force quit

Quite some time ago, at least a few months, I was importing only a couple photos from my iPhone onto my Macbook. It was taking a long time to complete so I just decided to quit the whole thing entirely. When I tried to close iPhoto it wouldn't let me and a message popped up saying "Please wait for the import to complete." I then tried to force quit, and the same message popped up. Many months have passed and the same message pops up when I try to close iPhoto, and all I can do on iPhoto now is look at the pictures I have on there. I really want to fix this problem because my phone is clogging up with photos and I would like to import them, but I can't. If someone could help, that'd be great. Thanks!

Save and close everything you can and then use the Activity Monitor in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder to quit the loginwindow process.
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