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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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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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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Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?
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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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When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.
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The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place?
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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My parents came from the Kyushu Island in the Southern part of Japan to find work in Tokyo. So we could only afford to live downtown, in a low-income area. It was just by the river, and whenever a typhoon came around, we were under water up to, like, here. That's the kind of place we lived in.
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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.
