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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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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With social media especially, there's a lot of image issues that everyone faces because there's so much pressure on us.
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I think there's inherently an issue that models will literally never be able to handle, which is that when somebody comes along with a new way of doing something that's really excellent, the models will not recognize it. They only know how to recognize excellence when they can measure it somehow.
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Since I'm a story-oriented critic, sometimes it's difficult to discuss issues without defining them. At the same time, I try not to give away anything that hasn't been given away in first half, in TV commercials, or that isn't obvious from the set-up of the movie. My editors are aware of this tendency of mine and read carefully for spoilers.
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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
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Through the history of art we can see through the emotional life, and sometimes the financial security of some of the artists, some transformation. And I really believe that it's generally about the same kind of transformation and the same kind of reaction. We are a little bit less individual than we would like to believe or guess we are.
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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.
