Cate Blanchett Quotes
When I emerged from drama school, I had no expectation that I would ever work in film.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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One of the most widely read novels by a black American is Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man.' It is his masterwork - it won the National Book Award in 1953 and catapulted my man to the highest levels of literary esteem.
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You can say whatever you want about me, I'm not really bothered. But when it starts to upset people I care about or I hear about it from my mum, then that's a problem.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.
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I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.
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I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.
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The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.
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I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.
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I think that fame only goes to your head if you are not a real artist. If you are a real artist and a good person who loves what they are doing, you are going to be the same person.
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For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.
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One of my favorite movies of all time is 'Bugsy Malone.'
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The basic work of health professionals in general, and of psychotherapist s in particular, is to become full human beings and to inspire full human-beingness in other people who feel starved about their lives.
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There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
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It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair.
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It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
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When I emerged from drama school, I had no expectation that I would ever work in film.
