Cate Shortland Quotes
I studied fascism when I was at university. My husband's family are German Jews. I'm very close to his grandma and she left Berlin when she was 19 in 1937. So, it's kind of all around me.
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I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.
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In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.
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My husband and I don't have sons, so we never had to ask ourselves how we'd have felt about them playing football.
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As an actor, I'm my own worst critic, but after awhile, really, when you watch 'Moonrise Kingdom', it's such a fantastic film that you sort of get sucked into the story, and then you kind of forget about everything else.
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I love to bake. There's something very ritualistic about it, kind of magic.
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She teaches me to be kind, punctual... and to stand up for myself. And when I think about it, aren't these things every mother should teach their daughter?
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My husband and I get along great. We're both introverts, and it's hard to make new friends.
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If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
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Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.
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Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.
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I had kind of sworn off network TV a while ago.
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I assume that we are all limited by our own brains and experiences and can only understand other people and other creatures through a kind of translation that brings them closer to us.
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The '80s was all about this idea that women could have it all. You could have a career, and you could have a husband, and you could have children.
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When a role seems fun it's easy to play. It kind of comes organically.
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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
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The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
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When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.
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Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.
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In 1958, we decided to go to Australia. We were there for six months, and all the shows went well.
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My father was a man's man and was always respected for being a straight shooter. My dad always had an amazing sense of calm about him.
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It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.
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Political change and academic change and intellectual change are obviously crucial, but they don't necessarily change society. They can change a particular class and give everybody in that class great arguments, but that doesn't necessarily translate into the body of the culture.
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I studied fascism when I was at university. My husband's family are German Jews. I'm very close to his grandma and she left Berlin when she was 19 in 1937. So, it's kind of all around me.
