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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He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.
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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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[To] the progressive mind, the very concept of "the enemy" is obsolescent: there are no enemies, just friends whose grievances we haven't yet accommodated.
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I'd love to still be able to play a bit of football, but my knees are shot to pieces.
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I feel like a human pinata. The disappointing thing is, no candy is going to spill out.
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As early pioneers in the knowing, that when you lose your reason, you attain highest perfect knowing.
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It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.
