Cate Blanchett Quotes
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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It was really fascinating for everyone involved in 'Fargo' that Marge Gunderson became the iconic character she did. I think it was something about the cultural zeitgeist and what was happening with women in the workplace.
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One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.
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But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.
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Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.
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I am essentially someone who comes from the theatre. I love the theatre. Unfortunately, theatre doesn't pay the bills. Only in theatre abroad, I get a wage.
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My father had a passion for love. It's mostly what he talked about in his songs, and I still have his old records today.
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I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've ever written and, as any writer will tell you, happy songs are a million times more difficult to write than sad songs.
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The khaleesi seems the most fair.
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We never work on only one project because we never know if we will get permission for a project. So, for 'Over the River,' we started in 1992. I was just finishing 'The Umbrellas' in Japan and California, and I was also working on getting permission to wrap the Reichstag.
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Music moves us because it serves as a metaphor for emotional life. It has peaks and valleys of tension and release. It mimics the dynamics of our emotional life.
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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I definitely don't ever see a time I want to retire. Ever.
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I feel like I'm always on the go, I'm always on the run.
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I grew up listening to music and going to the theatre.
