Cate Blanchett Quotes

Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?

Cate Blanchett

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LifeWorkGoodYourselfBrainWind

Nowadays, I only review books I really like. It's cowardly, I know, but I figure it's not my job to make people unhappy. I'll leave that to the professionals.

Meg Rosoff

JobPeopleUnhappyKnowLeaveBooks

Every teenager feels like a freak. It's part of being a teenager, part of the individuation from child to adult - those teenage years are who am I? What am I? Where am I going?

Trudie Styler

ChildWho Am IYearsFreakGoing

I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.

Ronnie Spector

MyselfManSleepSingingNightCry

I meet people, and we can get past small talk pretty quickly if they've read my books. It's a great shortcut.

Ruth Reichl

GreatPastPeopleSmallMeetTalk

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

Mary Douglas

MoralSuperiorityDestructive

In the early '20s, with the war over, there was a period of celebration, and you can see it in the fashion.

Michelle Dockery

WarFashionYouEarlyOverSee

The idea of a piece of literature as a vessel that could contain your life and lived after you had died and been forgotten struck me as akin to artificial intelligence.

Louisa Hall

LifeIntelligenceMeLiteratureYou

I never wanted to be the guy people looked at. I don't think of myself as being a celebrity; it's too mortifying.

Johnny Depp

MyselfPeopleThinkCelebrityNever

Sometimes, the aftermath is more devastating than the storm. That is the story of the 2008 financial crisis. It was disastrous at the time, but what has been worse is how long it has lingered.

Chrystia Freeland

TimeStormStoryFinancialLong

So I want my kids to go to public schools because I think it's a better education overall.

Chuck Schumer

EducationThinkBetterGoWantKids

Just the act of listening means more than you can imagine to most employees.

Bob Nelson

ListeningEmployeesYouMoreAct

I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did, and it's done. There's more to life than writing and publishing fiction. There is another way entirely, amazed as I am to discover it at this late date.

Philip Roth

LifeI AmWritingLateDesireDone

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