#ect

I'm not sure if I want to direct a film, but certainly, as an actress, I'm always thinking, 'Surely this must be my last film.' ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#always #certainly #direct #film #i

What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to bring it to the front page. He electrified an entire world! ↗

— Rita Dove

#bring #death #electrified #entire #entire world

I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all. ↗

— Alexander Downer

#hate #i #life #my own #own

I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#brother #children #enormous #generations #grandmother

Well, it's a - I don't want to disappoint you, but it's a time worn tradition of Australian Governments over many years not to get into any discussion about that aspect of intelligence matters. ↗

— Alexander Downer

#any #aspect #australian #disappoint #discussion

I read the script for Wonder Boys, and I said that was almost perfect, it was so classy, cool and funny. It's a really specific thing. We stuck to it, it turned out good and a lot of people liked it. ↗

— Robert Downey, Jr.

#classy #cool #funny #good #i

Look, it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'm vaguely blonde. To be perfectly frank, I don't know. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#blonde #cannot #frank #great #i

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#any #combinations #daring #effects #effort

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#accurately #after #animal #before #bone

Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them proud. ↗

— Maurice Blanchot

#delectable #display #isolates #like #lovers