Cate Blanchett Quotes
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I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us to be successful here. I've been lucky to be on some good teams over the years and that's what it takes, everybody contributing night after night.
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I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.
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I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.
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The biggest challenge is always the governments - they try to stop all good things. I try to stay away from them as much as I can, as I know if someone can destroy something good, it's the government.
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It's a notion that career-oriented women often neglect their families. But we should cut them some flak; these women are doing everything for the sake of family so that it progresses. I believe when kids see their mothers working hard, they take up responsibilities at home and are far more well-turned out than other children.
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I used to have to beg and borrow £25 to hire some French windows. I started producing in 1967, and I was in debt until 1981. Having a think about whether you can afford 'this' or 'that' is a good discipline to have, to maximise what you can achieve to the highest standard.
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Religious celebrations, and the good will, high spirits and generosity that mark them, are wonderful occasions for understanding the potential of 'everyday multiculturalism', and how people from diverse faiths can connect and show they care, rather than go down parallel, sometimes hostile, roads.
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Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.
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Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.
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I'm really into fashion, but I don't really spend that much on clothes. I manage to find everything I want at a good price.
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Traditionally I'm not a very good secret-keeper.
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If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
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I might cook occasionally, but I'm not a good cook. That's not my passion.
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Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
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I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process.
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The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months.
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I take big risks, but I'm not reckless about it.
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In life, we all struggle and strive to make progress. When will you know you've reached success? A billion dollars is a good sign, but there's a better one - humility.
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My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from.'
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I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else.
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I'm the heir apparent to the heir presumptive.
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Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE's not striving for the kind of innovation it's capable of.
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It is Method on 'This is England;' it is. But it can't be Method on every job because it just doesn't work for everything.
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I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.
