Cate Blanchett Quotes
My kids don't watch any TV, but they watch videos and films. I'm sure they watch it at friends' houses.
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Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student.
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Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.
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I love the romance of 'let's get married,' but then, when you have it so perfect... I mean, I'm more married than anybody can be - we have two kids. Maybe one day, but it's something I can really do without.
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All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.
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Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.
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I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.
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I struggled in school. Math and science were difficult for me. But I can watch 10 guys play, and I can tell you what everybody did. It might be a curse because when you see everything, sometimes you don't let your kids play.
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We can't accept that it's O.K. if only some kids get to go to college.
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Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.
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I learned early that I had to work harder than the white kids and harder than the boys.
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My mom lived by herself with two kids. Sacrifice was the name of the game at our house.
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'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp. And he wrote my next movie, which was 'Made.'
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In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it.
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When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'
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Growing up in Hollywood meant there were a lot of film stars' kids at my school - but no conspicuous wealth. It wasn't cool to show off that you had money.
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If our kids want to do music, they are going to have to have a hard row to hoe just like any other band under the sun, and they're going to have to want it more than anyone else.
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I still wake up every day and take my kids to school. It's supposed to be this way.
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Moving to the U.S. was an adjustment. I noticed that the kids played in groups. Back in Kakuma, everyone played together.
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On a day-to-day level, I love watching my kids accomplish the little things that seem trivial but are really milestones: seeing my son hit a baseball or watching my daughter draw something that actually looks like what she says she's drawing. Or hearing them say 'I love you.'
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I think people sometimes confuse 'catchy' with something that should automatically be a hit in today's world. I mean, obviously we write a lot of stuff that's catchy, that sticks in your head. But that doesn't necessarily mean that middle-school kids are going to want to listen to a song about a lawyer or a Subaru or whatever.
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I've never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I'm a good person. I believe I'm a good mom. But that's for my kids to decide, not for the world.
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Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.
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I don't believe in hasty marriages.
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My kids don't watch any TV, but they watch videos and films. I'm sure they watch it at friends' houses.
