Albert Camus Quotes
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.
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Actors have this amazing skill - we bond quite quickly but equally we move on quite quickly. There's nothing particularly cold or capricious about it - we're troubadours and lead a troubadour's lifestyle.
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I feel enormously proud to be part of East Anglia's Children's Hospices and to see the wonderful life-changing work that you do.
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As a director on 'The Office,' there's a tremendous weight that comes with directing features. I was being asked to direct a show that had already won an Emmy for Best Comedy. Steve Carell and the cast had already won the Screen Actor's Guild Awards.
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I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is.
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Banning paper and plastic and making shoppers carry their groceries home in their mouths like dogs is just the thing to make a little tin humanist in the Obama West Wing think he's admiral of the Uzbek Navy.
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Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.
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Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.
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George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger-than-life.
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About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.
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I can do a good roast with my eyes closed. I'm amazing with gravy. That's my speciality; even other people ask me to do gravy at their house. I'm very proud of my gravy.
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I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.
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A photograph can express silence.
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Some of my favorite characters that I've played have been very pompous because I love making fun of pompous people.
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Lavender is the new pink. I'll never stop wearing pink but I wanted to venture out.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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Eleven years is a great length of time to prepare a movie, it would be wonderful to have 11 years of funded preparation.
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I just think she was a wonderful woman. What I think of when I think of Nina [Simone] is someone that I could relate to, who didn't want anything from me, that could relate to me because I didn't want anything from her. It was nice.
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Vulnerability is a wonderful thing. We're all so afraid to be vulnerable in this world.
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That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.
