Albert Camus Quotes
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
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Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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I kind of like to write fast. It keeps the pacing up. And it keeps me off the streets.
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The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.
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Ned passed the next few minutes quietly not dying in his office, and was pleased with how well it was going. He'd stayed alive longer, but now that he was concentrating on it, it felt more like an accomplishment.
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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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I have a collection of impractical vintage dresses and jackets. I guess I never grew out of the 'playing dress up' faze. It's actually a bit of a problem.
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It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.
