Cate Blanchett Quotes

For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.

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• Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries.

  

  Tahar Rahim
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• We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.

  

  Frances Beinecke
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• My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.

  

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• Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

  

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• If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.

  

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• God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

  

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• Cows are gentle, interesting animals.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
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• All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • May
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• I have so many pairs of oxfords; it's ridiculous. It started because at my school you have to wear oxfords for our uniform, but after I got my first pair, I realized they were really comfortable, so they became my regular walking shoes, too.

  

  Yara Shahidi
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• I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

  

  Van Morrison
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• I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.

  

  Jack Palance
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• You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
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• Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.

  

  Owen Paterson
  • Change
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• On June 22, 1793, Vancouver's Discovery and Chatham anchored in Klekane Inlet. Archibald Menzies, the ship's botanist, wrote that on the evening of June 28, they were visited by eight natives in two canoes who brought them two large salmon. This is the first known published encounter with the Haisla people.

  

  Eden Robinson
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• I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

  

  Pat Conroy
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• Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
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• The thing about dating someone who listens to a totally different genre than you is they can help you find things to appreciate in that genre.

  

  Hannah Simone
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• Laws don't really restrain people. Ninety-eight percent of people follow a virtuous course with or without laws.

  

  Rand Paul
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• I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.

  

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• I used to think that, by the 21st century, cars would run on electricity rather than gasoline and would have guidance systems so that they actually drove themselves. Specially equipped roadways would transmit instructions to the cars, telling them where to go and how fast. I figured this would be in the lines painted on the roads.

  

  Pat Cadigan
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• Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
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• One should also remember that the U.S. is the biggest exporter of torture weapons in the world, though the U.K. is not far behind in the league table. We never stopped, even under Robin Cook's supposedly ethical foreign policy.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • World
  • Remember
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• For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Think
  • Difficult
  • Make