Albert Camus Quotes
The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.
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If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
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It's interesting now that basically a CG set is the same cost as a real set. So like if you're going to build a CG house in the suburbs, it costs you $200,000. And if you were going to build it in a computer, it'll cost you $200,000. It's the same... the relationship is exactly the same.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.
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My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just be saying 'Waka! Waka!' So when I was younger, I used to always laugh, then my man Gucci gave me the rest of the name.
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I want people to tell me the truth.
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I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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Seeing people get messed up never gets un-funny! And there's plenty of ways to do that.
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Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.
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It's ridiculous that we are in a place where we feel like we can classify and dismiss certain groups of people just because of the way they look, or we have these standards of health - like, cellulite is something you need to get rid of. No, it isn't. It's just a part of people's bodies.
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Jealousy is a scary thing.
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And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.
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I come from a council estate in Tower Hamlets, and by no means am I the only person who has done well - one of my friends is head of year in a great school in Twickenham. Another is a writer; another is an artist, a musician.
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Nothing important is completely explicable.
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My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest past, nothing of her subsists within the hollows and dells of memory, over which, if you can still stand my style (I am writing under observation), the sun of my infancy had set: surely, you all know those redolent remnants of day suspended, with the midges, about some hedge in bloom or suddenly entered and traversed by the rambler, at the bottom of a hill, in the summer dusk; a furry warmth, golden midges.
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The Law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.
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I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.
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The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power.
