Cate Blanchett Quotes
I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.
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I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.
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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
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Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
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I would love to coach. I'm not saying I'm qualified to do it in the N.B.A., but I would love to try.
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors.
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Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
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I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.
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From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.
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The time the moon is going back, the blood that is in a person does be weakening, but when the moon is strong, the blood that moves strong in the same way. And it to be at the full, it drags the wits along with it, the same as it drags the tide.
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Islamic fundamentalism in its activist manifestation is bad news. Religious fundamentalism in general is bad news. We know about religious fundamentalism in South Africa. Calvinist fundamentalism has been an unmitigated force of benightedness in our history.
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I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.
