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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Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.
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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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It's great fun that my grandkids get to see the costumes in 'Alice in Wonderland' or a doll with grandma's dress, but then they also let me know they're bummed I didn't do any of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
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My mom has a tape from when I was, like, 2 years old, talking with my grandma, telling her a story that's really elaborate about werewolves and wolves.
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Plays are definitely the most difficult of them all. They are entirely a different category altogether. I don't have the courage to try out plays.
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My kids love Ibiza and we feel committed to it because we keep coming back to the same area. People recognise us in shops now and we have a social life here. We cook at home and have friends around.
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After everything happened, we all got super tight. I can't deny it. We all just love each other. James Garner and David Spade came on and we fell in love with them too. We've just become a family all over again. We don't want to lose anyone again.
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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.
