Albert Camus Quotes

Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.

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• There is no debate that social media is a great tool for networking with others in our industry. It can lead to friendships, support, and serendipitous connections with reviewers, agents, reporters, or editors.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Great
  • Support
  • Friendships

• I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've been dodging work for 20 years, and at some point, I'll have to get a real job.

  

  Adam Hughes
  • Work
  • Real
  • Job

• Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.

  

  Cara Castronuova
  • Idea
  • Boxing
  • Ring

• I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Play
  • Crazy
  • Actor

• Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.

  

  Eddie Bracken
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fun

• I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Guy
  • Myself
  • Like

• Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Something
  • More
  • Jazz

• But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Poetry
  • Write
  • Muse

• When I was in high school, the genders were so separate from each other. If you weren't 'dating' somebody, you couldn't just be friends with somebody.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• Being an entrepreneur means being a creative businessperson.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Creative
  • Entrepreneur

• I am no stranger to loud noise. I've been to a Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels concert. I once dated a woman with two kids.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Kids

• There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Men
  • Women
  • Feeling

• Like all fads, corporate governance has its zealots

  

  Conrad Black

• No one component of a film can have any meaning in isolation: it is the film that is the work of art. And we can only talk about its components rather arbitrarily, dividing it up artificially or the sake of theoretical discussion.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Up
  • Work
  • Art

• Who but a stupid barbarian could burn so much beauty in his stove and destroy that which he cannot make?

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Stupid

• I always have an item in mind that I want to wear; then, the next day, I put it on, and I love the 20-minute rush of frantically tearing clothes out of my wardrobe to go with it. And I honestly feel that's the best way to do it; there's no method to my fashion madness so to speak.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Mind
  • Fashion

• Some of my friends are giving me law books. I love reading those. It's like my relaxation.

  

  Charice Pempengco
  • Friends
  • Giving
  • Law

• It's weird because I see black gay characters on television all the time, but do I relate to them? Not always, because they're set pieces.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • Time
  • Black
  • Weird

• I still got a lot to learn about fashion. I'm somebody who experiments, somebody who's finding their way. I'm young, and I don't really know if there's any guide to style in what's right and what's wrong. I just dress as an extension of how I'm feeling. If I feel crazy, then I'm gonna rock something crazy.

  

  Big Sean
  • Feeling
  • Fashion
  • Crazy

• In providing this $5,000 tax credit for those purchasing rural homes, we're offering an important incentive to encourage people to live in smaller communities - and perhaps even stay in a community they might be considering leaving.

  

  John M. McHugh
  • People
  • Important
  • Live

• I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Always
  • Star
  • Creative

• When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how it would feel to be up somewhere above it winging swiftly thought the clear air, watching the earth below, and the men on it, no bigger than ants.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Up
  • Men
  • Earth

• Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Men
  • Things
  • Cry