Cate Blanchett Quotes
When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.
Quotes to Explore
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.
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Oh yah, I'm definitely an old rocker.
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What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
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My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.
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Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
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The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.
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Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.
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I remember nearly having a fit of the giggles during the reading because dear Daniel was SO respectful and serious and I was finding the whole situation funny because I was speaking to his profile.
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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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I've learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I think I should write a book about it!
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So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things.
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Shallowness and ignorance have been our lot in the mass consumer societies we inhabit, where we were too distracted to act politically, apart from periodically deputing political elites to take life-and-death decisions on our behalf.
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I receive many letters from people hoping to research their own houses.
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It's the way tenure works, together with dismissal protections that tenured teachers have, that no other public employee has, which makes it almost impossible to remove a grossly ineffective and incompetent teacher or, in some cases, even an abusive teacher.
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From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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Home drunk—hearing their footsteps on the landing and how they waited for them to come in, pull them out of bed, and punish them for some imagined offense.
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Parties are a cruel kind of fun.
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When you're directing something, you absolutely have to be involved in all layers of the process.
