Cate Blanchett Quotes
It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.
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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
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I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
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It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.
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One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
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Most people like to hear sounds they are used to.
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I am always looking for stories that have not been told too much, and one story that I think is really gripping and important is what police officers go through.
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I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.
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When I meet people after stand-up shows, they'll bring their cars.
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People with targets and jobs dependent upon meeting them will probably meet the targets - even if they have to destroy the enterprise to do it.
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Less than two weeks before my 34th birthday, I bought pots. Most people were amazed that I did not previously own pots, but that was before I explained that I had never used my oven, and used my stovetop for my dishrack.
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I learned music from a book on piano theory. I was only interested in knowing about chords. From that, and from the 'Harvard Dictionary of Music,' I learned everything I wanted to know.
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Mum and dad would drive me to the ACT Academy of Sport gym at 5 A.M., sit in the car and read a book, and then drive me to school. I appreciated it when I was younger, but I didn't really understand how much they were putting into it. Now I look at budgets of $70,000 to compete, and I think, 'Wow, they've put so much into this.'
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
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I was asking questions which nobody else had asked before, because nobody else had actually looked at certain structures. Therefore, as I will tell, the advent of the computer, not as a computer but as a drawing machine, was for me a major event in my life. That's why I was motivated to participate in the birth of computer graphics, because for me computer graphics was a way of extending my hand, extending it and being able to draw things which my hand by itself, and the hands of nobody else before, would not have been able to represent.
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I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.
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It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.
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It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.
