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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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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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 definitely want to be an inspiration or a role model for all the little girls out there or anyone out there that wants to break stereotypes. I feel like I'm breaking stereotypes with what I'm doing. I'm not the typical fighter, and there's a lot of people out there that won't do something just because they don't fit the stereotype.
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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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There is no real magic to being a good leader. But at the end of every week, you have to spend your time around the things that are really important: setting priorities, measuring outcomes, and rewarding them.
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Ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'être dit, on le chante.
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I'm always calculating what I want to do, who I want to be, what I want to accomplish. I don't need to worry about that - that's always there on a slow simmer. The muscle I have to work on is being more present.
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The thing that inspires me most is empathizing with people's flaws and seeing how they deal with them. That sort of connection you feel with someone when you realize that maybe even the negative things that they've said or done are because of insecurities or injuries they've endured.
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When I emerged from drama school, I had no expectation that I would ever work in film.
