Albert Camus Quotes
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
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You don't have to get it right the first time.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
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People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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By now, you've probably caught on to something: my mother is always standing by with just the right Scripture or inspirational saying to get me through any tough situation.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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I decided to start acting in my mid-twenties. I studied pre-med, and I have a bachelor's degree in Biology, so when I decided to pursue a different career, I got a lot of, 'What on earth are you doing?' But, I gave myself a year and thought, 'You know what, I'm going to just beat the odds.'
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Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before we'd go to bed, my mom and dad would read to us two or three stories and they would always be 'The Happy Prince,' 'The Gift of the Magi' and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas,' and I would like to keep that alive.
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I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.
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Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.
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Dearest,although everything has happened,nothing has happened.
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I think I've always had that orientation to try to understand the humanity behind people with whom I disagree.
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Certainly, cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest.
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Foucault is the Cagliostro of our time.
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Every day I get more and more honest.
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There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.
