Cate Blanchett Quotes
I'm not interested in using my father's death as some touch point for why I've become an actor - it's grossly opportunistic.
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My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.
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From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.
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I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?
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To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
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I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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It was never my goal to be an actor.
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Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
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My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.
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I always joke that my kids' favorite holiday is Father's Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It's my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.
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God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
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As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms.
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To be respected as an actor it doesn't help to be seen out in the clubs.
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The Baha'i celebrity, or the Belebrity, is a character actor with a big head playing an annoying creep on a TV show.
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The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.
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A very beautiful honey blonde, Sharon Tate, looked into the eyes of the man who the evidence shows just four and a half months later would order her tragic and violent death.
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Networks, especially, micro-manage everything to death.
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Like my father, I don't want to see anyone mistreated, anything like that. I'm very racial-conscious because my father had a lot of, you know, challenges in the area of race. I'm very sensitive to that kind of issue.
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It is important for a father who feels pushed away to say, in effect, 'When you do that, I feel unwanted as a father,' or 'I feel my rough-housing is not bad parenting; it's my contribution to helping our child take risks.' Women cannot hear what men do not say. – page 105.
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He was all iron outside, but all father within.
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I never received any encouragement. My father would work nights and my mother would work during the day. We were expected to get a job with a trade.
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From the age of 8, I was running media campaigns on global issues back home in Australia. I was ever so slightly precocious. I would meet with senior Australian government officials, including the prime minister and foreign minister, proposing various solutions to third-world debt and malnutrition.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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I'm not interested in using my father's death as some touch point for why I've become an actor - it's grossly opportunistic.
