Cate Blanchett Quotes
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I love what I do professionally, I'm really blessed. But my priority is my husband and my children.
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We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.
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Indeed, throughout much of history and in many cultures, redheads have been viewed with suspicion and fear - and even killed - because of their hair.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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When you have girl children they torture you!
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In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.
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I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.
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You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.
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People still try to sell books that way - as 'books can take you to foreign lands.' We've given children this idea that reading and books are a nice option, if you want that kind of thing. I hope we can get over that idea.
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The most satisfying thrillers send ordinary people into battle against the forces of evil - otherwise known as greed, ego, rage, fear and laziness - and bring them out bloodied but whole.
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Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.
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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
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The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
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Work-family conflicts-the trade-offs of your money or your life, your job or your child-would not be forced upon women with such sanguine disregard if men experienced the same career stalls caused by the-buck-stops-here responsibility for children.
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We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
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It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope. lf we are united, we may be able to produce a world in which our children and other people's children will be safe.
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I grew up on a sugar plantation in Trinidad, on an expat estate, and that meant I had no idea about money until a lot later than most children.
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It's an important thing for children to be able to make up their own words.
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I do a lot of a cross training.
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Maybe my face is edgy, but that's because it's the face of somebody who's seen life.
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I do work very hard. I have been very colored by that education. I spent six days a week, seven hours a day training. That will always be the foundation of my work.
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The parts I enjoy playing aren't really available to me. So I have to write them.
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Don't give up your life because balance is important, but when you're young you have energy, use it!
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Like any mum, I fear some mysterious illness befalling my children.
