Albert Camus Quotes

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• When I started off in England, HMV or Tower Records would come to meetings and be, like, 'We just don't know what this genre is.' I don't really fit in between Rihanna and Beyonce.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Know
  • England
  • Meetings

• Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • Chance
  • Note
  • Seldom

• Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Sometimes
  • Saying
  • Silent

• And for the first time in a long time, I'm playing along somebody that has that same energy and fire and plays pretty much the same way I do. So, that was just nice to say.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Time
  • Long
  • Pretty

• It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Men
  • Art
  • Myself

• It's nice to work with your own alma mater.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Work
  • Nice
  • Own

• Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Safe
  • Before
  • Stunt

• I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Way
  • Going
  • Limitations

• Even in real life, sometimes you find that person you click with that you get irritated by every other person in the world but you can be around this person every day and you'd be fine with it.

  

  Damon Wayans, Jr.
  • Life
  • World
  • Real

• I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • Work
  • Movie

• We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Writing
  • Live
  • Now

• I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Work
  • Comedy
  • Feel

• I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Writing
  • Feel
  • Need

• Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Think
  • Language
  • Magic

• The best thing you can do for your body is sleep. It's simple. Cater to your body as much as to your mind. Your body, after all, houses your mind. You have to pay attention to your physicality as much as your mentality.

  

  Kajol
  • Mind
  • Attention
  • Simple

• I've had a job since I was 11. I had a paper route, I worked at a video store, I was a toy doll at FAO Schwartz when I was in high school. And I think that it's made me really disciplined when it came to pursuing acting, because I had no clue how to go about it.

  

  Cara Buono
  • School
  • Job
  • High

• Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Reality
  • Like
  • Corner

• At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • School
  • Dance
  • Worst

• Obama gets his identity and his ideology from his father.

  

  Dinesh D'Souza
  • Father
  • Identity

• When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Music
  • Live
  • Best

• When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's up and it goes right on out to the audience, you know?

  

  Billy Eckstine
  • Up
  • Music
  • Band

• While starving refugees in Homs were providing target practice for government snipers, Bashar al-Assad's strongest international backer was in Sochi, at the Iceberg Skating Palace, visibly moved, smiling with deep satisfaction, as the Russians beautifully glided and leaped their way to the gold medal in the team event.

  

  George Packer
  • Team
  • Practice
  • Deep

• There's no time for conversation dear, moan is all I want to hear.

  

  Antonio Hardy
  • Time
  • Conversation
  • Moan

• I was absent at the moment I took up the most space.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Space
  • Took
  • Absent