Cate Blanchett Quotes
I saw the first 'How to Train Your Dragon' film with my children, and I found it utterly exhilarating.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.
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I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.
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Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.
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I try to eat fruit and be healthy.
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I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
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Mr. President, there comes to a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now. And I will not let the PATRIOT Act, the most un-patriotic of acts, go unchallenged.
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'Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.'
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Individualism, isolation, alienation. The poet is not only different from society, he is as different as possible from other poets; all this differentness is exploited to the limit-is used as subject matter, even. Each poet develops an elaborate, 'personalized', bureaucratized machinery of effect; refine your singularities is everybody’s maxim.
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Whether it's an inspiring song or whether it's an entertaining song - whatever it might be about it - I just want people to feel the emotion that I put into it because I think emotion... is everything.
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The employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.
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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
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I just love Dolly so much, and Loretta. They both are songwriters that knew what they wanted to say; they were bucking a system.
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I'm never just on the couch. Being busy is part of who I am. But it's hard juggling my family, my husband, balancing that time.
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Most people think of ballet as children in little tutus. They don't know it is sweat, blood and tears as well!
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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The people that usually have the most trouble with my books are the ones that pick them apart from a theological point of view.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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I saw the first 'How to Train Your Dragon' film with my children, and I found it utterly exhilarating.
