Cate Blanchett Quotes
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I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.
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My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.
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I am quite a private person.
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I prefer doing feature films.
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I love having a lot of content. I prefer to have constant stimulation.
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I love stories with love in them. I just prefer those films. Every so often, I come across a film where there's no love story. It doesn't have to be romantic, but there's a lack of love, and I don't get that.
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Try to be in as many relationships as you can.
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As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
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To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin.
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I prefer to live in a rented house. No ties. Nothing around my neck. Just the minimum kind of bare comforts of home.
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Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.
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It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
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Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need to test this. It has the status more of religious truth than scientific hypothesis. The facts are absolutely clear. There is no question that in virtually all circumstances in which people are doing things in order to get rewards, extrinsic tangible rewards undermine intrinsic motivation.The bonus myth: How paying for results can backfire.
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All would have transformed us if we had the courage to be what we are.
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If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer death.
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The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.
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The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.
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I think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creating life. Or some kind of energy or antigravity. It's like the answer to an equation and it's become mythical over the years. But at one time we all knew what it was. I don't know when it was exactly, but that was the ancient knowledge. It's become diffused as it was handed down and turned into myth.
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Last season when I was on set...for some reason I had The Battle Hymn of the Republic in my head but I didn't know all the words. It was one of those songs you had to learn when you were younger. It wasn't as important for people raised in the 80's and 90's as it was to people raised in the 50's, 60's and 70's so when I started singing "My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord," Jane Fonda heard me singing it and started singing the rest of it. Suddenly everyone on set everyone was singing. That's just something I can keep in my heart forever.
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We covered so much ground on Thursday night that it took us half and hour. I’m not trying to look for excuses but that’s the reality.
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I like working in any medium. Who's making it? How much do I like the story? Does it contribute something?
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The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.
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I guess I prefer to be quite private. It's a myth that actors are exhibitionists.
