Albert Camus Quotes
…. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth.
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The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
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If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.
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All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.
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I'm hugely patriotic.
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I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.
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I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.
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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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I don't look at myself as a Scream Queen, and I don't plan on continuing on this genre route. If anything, I want to go very different places.
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I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.
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It's good just to laugh sometimes, and if it comes out of some truth, it's even stronger.
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You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender.
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One peculiarity of an astronaut's job is that we do everything in public. Also, you don't want to make a mistake. In the best case, it's an embarrassment, in the worst, death. That's also part of the training. They teach you to think like an astronaut, like they do with a pilot, a military man, a fireman. You dissociate in your mind the gravity of the consequences of your mistake.
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…. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth.
