Cate Blanchett Quotes
You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually.
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My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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Conformity is dangerous.
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Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?
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It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
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When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living conditions: no electricity, no running water and, of course, no computer, no phone.
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I got a great kick being in the Warner Bros. studios - that was really cool. I kept singing the 'Looney Tunes' theme song all day. I'm sure they haven't heard that one before.
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If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
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Her mother, Laurie Simmons, is a contemporary artist, and my stepmother, Cindy Sherman, is a photographer, so they've known each other forever. Lena and I were often at the same dinner parties when we were kids.
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To try and act like we haven't had great progress is not true. Obama didn't fail - he changed the psyche of the nation and, in some ways, the world.
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People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood.
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It's very hard to concentrate when your stomach's rumbling.
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LazyTown' is not a TV property, but a lifestyle brand for children.
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We are all equal children before our mother; and India asks each one of us, in whatsoever role we play in the complex drama of nation-building, to do our duty with integrity, commitment and unflinching loyalty to the values enshrined in our Constitution.
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My girl is a ten. We’re the new Barbie and Ken. But we don’t gotta pretend, keep it one hundred percent.
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There are no hard and fast rules. Sometimes you work for free and get no credit or courtesy. That's why you make sure you do what you love.
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You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually.
