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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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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You have to be real with yourself. No one is doing that. People are too concerned with making everything look nice and calm and pretty.
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I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something.
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I think it takes a lot of desire because I think a lot of people who've never written books don't know quite how hard it is to stick with, to put in the amount of time and just make the commitment to just sit there every day and do it while everybody else is out having fun.
