Cate Blanchett Quotes
I'm not interested in playing characters who see the world through my prism; I think the journey of understanding any character is to see how they tick and how they differ from you.

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If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
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The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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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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Love, and do what you like.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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Regular martial arts is traditional, with no music and no flips choreograhed into it. But extreme martial arts is choreographed to music. It's very fast-beat uptempo, and you put a lot of acrobatic maneuvers into the routine.
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I try not to be in situations where I'm being grabbed at. For the most part, you can avoid them.
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If you are explaining, you are losing.
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If you know how to make software, then you can create big things.
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You get callbacks, and they either give it to what they call a 'name' performer, or they decide to go in an entirely different direction.
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If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.
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People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.
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We own a shopping center in Temecula that is occupied and making money. In Florida, I am doing a 500-home subdivision just north of Eglin Air Force Base.
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I don't seek the counsel of God. God doesn't speak to me on what I should or shouldn't do.
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When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.
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I'm not interested in playing characters who see the world through my prism; I think the journey of understanding any character is to see how they tick and how they differ from you.