Cate Blanchett Quotes
The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.
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Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.
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You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.
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The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.
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Look, maybe I'm just not good at multi-tasking and am, therefore, jealous of those of you who can get in a workout while yammering on your cell phone, but for the love of all that is good and pure, shut your yap!
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I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.
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Polka dots are fabulous.
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Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even one woman to a meeting or to a decision-making body can do. Put simply, in very many instances, group dynamics improve markedly.
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A lot of the songs are based on my previous relationship. It didn't work out. I lost him, and it ruined me. I had to learn to get back on my feet. I used that heartbreak to create something really beautiful.
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Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.
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Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.
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Imagine choosing a job not on money or even on career advancement, but as part of a life worth living.
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Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.
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Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.
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You don't want R&B singers to get into beef. Leave that to the rappers, let them do that - R&B, be classy.
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Whatsoever is, is in God.
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I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self-involvement is part of the package. You're probably already disregarding a certain material life you could have.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.
