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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A free and truly independent press - fiercely independent when necessary - is the red beating heart of freedom and democracy.
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Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries.
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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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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.
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You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
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Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
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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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The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.
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I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.
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I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.
