Cate Blanchett Quotes
Those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films with women at the center are niche experiences - they are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.

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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.
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I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.
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I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.
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I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.
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I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.
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It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.
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There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's as if they themselves were art objects. They feel as if their lives are written narratives, or pieces of music.
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The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.
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It's a very rare and fortunate position to be able to make movies with two of your best friends who happen to be really amazing actors and writers.
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I want to work on things that aren't self-evident, to propose things that are radically different and game-changing.
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For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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One day I hope to open my own day-care center. My passion for kids is through the roof.
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Read books. They are good for us.
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There's nothing definite yet. Of course, any time you have a book, there's going to be book signings and stuff. We'll do bookstores that handle both audio and video. And some of the stores want to have the CDs available at the same time. So that part looks real good.
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There are no easy words for the insights of the spirit, and approximate language used in good faith can cause approximate truths to spread like a disease.
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Those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films with women at the center are niche experiences - they are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.