#ex

I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#back #discovered #early #experience #feed

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss. ↗

— Edward Dowden

#cynicism #depict #experiment #hazardous #humour

If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#exercise #muscles #only #other #quickly

Well let's face it, who on earth besides antique dealers and gay couples actually still give dinner parties? ↗

— Nigel Slater

#food #gay #gay-stereotypes #homosexuality #party

It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#continual #experiences #feed #got #important

To some degree. I think that I've always been very much of a chordal person. The chords are the foundation of everything. Some of Yes' stuff is very linear, albeit complex, but it's single-line melodic stuff. So I kind of had to wear a different cap working with Yes. It's not so much chord-based. ↗

— Geoff Downes

#always #been #cap #chords #complex

I take some pride in... representing myself exactly how I would like to have my son remember me to his kids. ↗

— Robert Downey, Jr.

#his #how #i #kids #like

It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#because #been #death #experienced #i

Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. ↗

— Alphonse Karr

#every #every man #exhibits #man #thinks

What gets me excited is the original principle. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

#gets #me #original #principle