Cate Blanchett Quotes
Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.
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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
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I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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Love, and do what you like.
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Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
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I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O!
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The thing that 'Glee' has successfully done that no other TV show has is that they're just honest - but they don't tell you what's right or wrong. They don't tell you what to agree with or what to believe in.
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Value is what you get.
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When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
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You have to create something from nothing.
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When in doubt, you bring in relatives. Nepotism is a part of my work.
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You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
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Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
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Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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Marriage happens; it can't be planned. When it has to happen, it will happen. Normally, what we always believe is that however prepared you are, if it's not meant to happen, it won't. And however much we have not planned, it will still happen if it's destined.
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You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.
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'Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was great and Robin Williams was unbelievable as the Genie. 'Aladdin' was an amazing adventure and the lead character was a hero for guys, which I loved. It wasn't a princess or a girl beating the odds; it was a street rat. That seemed really cool to me.
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I visited the Pentagon a few days after September 11, and I still remember so vividly the smell of terror surrounding the entire building and complex. I was angry that such a brutal act of violence was committed against innocent people.
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Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.
