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

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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• When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

  

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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