Cate Blanchett Quotes
I applaud Women in Film - not only for celebrating the successes of women, but for providing a safety network to mentor women and to discuss the particular issues that arise in a very male-dominated industry.
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I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.
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There are a tremendous amount of environmental issues that are on the table.
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I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.
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T.I.'s my mentor; he's a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on the phone all the time. He's helped me with my career.
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I believe our legacy will be defined by the accomplishments and fearless nature by which our daughters and sons take on the global challenges we face. I also wonder if perhaps the most lasting expression of one's humility lies in our ability to foster and mentor our children.
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Harvey Korman was like a private tutor to me. He was such a mentor.
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Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first president.
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I'd never discuss anything confidential.
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I only act in films where I've got an A-lister as my mentor.
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I am my own mentor. I like to listen to myself to improve.
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Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues.
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You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.
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My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.
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You can only mentor somebody if they want to be.
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I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor.
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My biggest mentor has been the Benchmark partnership. We have six partners and a flat structure, and everyone is paid the exact same paycheck. It's a team model versus an individual model.
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Any politician is to a certain degree a mentor. They preach something.
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To have a drama teacher as a mentor was just like, 'Oh, what a gift.'
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I still claim that there are only few constraints. Our division is too complex to have more than a very few independent chains. Lou, don’t you realize that everything we mentioned so far is closely connected? The lack of sensible long-term strategy, the measurement issues, the lag in product design, the long lead times in production, the general attitude of passing the ball, of apathy, are all connected. We must put our finger on the core problem, on the root that causes them all. That is what actually is meant by identify the constraint. It’s not prioritizing the bad effects, it’s identifying what causes them all.
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Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.
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We are always influenced by the work that we do. Having worked in manufacturing you are always inspired by it, whether it’s the design that goes into products, the production, the science, the technology.
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You don't watch home movie for the technique, you watch because it's reminiscing on good moments you spent with your friends. It reflects you. It belongs to you. So I was thinking people could, instead of spending their money to go and see a blockbuster, make their own movies. Collect the money and make a new one every week. I thought it would be nice to create a world that makes this construct possible.
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If you want to create wealth, it is imperative that you believe that you are at the steering wheel of life, especially your financial life.
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I applaud Women in Film - not only for celebrating the successes of women, but for providing a safety network to mentor women and to discuss the particular issues that arise in a very male-dominated industry.
