"And perhaps, those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films, with women at the center are niche experience, they are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people."

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Source : "Oscars Transcripts from All the Acceptance Speeches!". Article by Sam Coffey, www.awardscircuit.com. March 3, 2014.

Cate Blanchett

#Ideas Quotes #People Quotes #Female Quotes

“No one can break me down. I know my worth and its a beautiful thing.”
“I'm less confident now than I've ever been. In this peculiar craft, confidence is something you spend a lifetime losing. I used to be frightened only one night a week but now I'm frightened of every performance. I mean really frightened.”
“The library is like a candy store where everything is free.”

Source : Jamie Ford (2013). “Songs of Willow Frost: A Novel”, p.39, Ballantine Books
“Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always be, for you, the only possible way it could be. Less often a painter will describe an event in a way that fits into your interpretation of that event so perfectly that it becomes the event itself.”

Source : Vincent Price (2016). “I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography”, p.142, Open Road Media
“I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.”

Source : Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.
“The point is that we have no control. The point is that there are no guarantees, that we never know what's going to happen in life, but we can't give up. The point is that, fallible as we all are, we have to keep trying, we have to keep reaching out to others.”

Source : Joy Fielding (2012). “Still Life: Caught in a nightmare between life and death ...”, p.167, Simon and Schuster
“We still have too many Americans who give in to their fears of those who are different from them. Not so long ago, swastikas were painted on the doors of some African-American members of our Special Forces at Ft. Bragg. They are special forces. They do not deserve to have swastikas on their doors.”
“When you hang around a lot of comedians long enough, you realize there's a certain gene, in every comedian. It's why we get hyper-analytical about things.”

Source : "How Nerdist Chris Hardwick Gets Things Done". Interview with Kevin Purdy, lifehacker.com. April 29, 2009.

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