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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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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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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The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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I've worked with a lot of gay and lesbian organizations. I sit on the board of the Empire State Pride Agenda. I've also done a lot of work for Broadway Care/Equity Fights AIDS. I think it's important because, when we can be of service to others, it only enhances our lives. I've been helped a lot in my life.
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I am not at all interested in theories about cinema. I am only interested in images and people and sound. I am really a very simple person.
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I often have the feeling that acting is really not difficult, because all I do is I just listen. I just listen. I just listen to what there is. And if there's nothing, then I listen to nothing. If there's a chair, and it's empty, I listen to an empty chair, and I will respond to it.
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When I emerged from drama school, I had no expectation that I would ever work in film.
