Cate Blanchett Quotes
People who say, 'There's nothing to fear from spiders' have clearly never been to Australia.
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I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.
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We got into all the trouble you could ever imagine. We figured that if the Jones boys and all the gangsters ran Chicago, we had our own territory now. All the stores, all the crime, we were in charge of everything, my stepbrother and my brother.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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Whatever you are doing, give it all of your attention. Prioritise what you're going to do carefully, and then be in the moment.
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Good material is good material.
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Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
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A woman - even if she is the primary breadwinner - really needs to keep in mind that at some point, she may have a diminished earning capacity because of the fact that she will bear children. Of course, this is case by case. I had two kids, and it didn't really slow me down at all.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
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To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.
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I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European.
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As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no home.
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What we do every night is we change out the set list as much as we can to make sure that (fans can) go home and tell their friends they experienced something unique and cool.
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Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.
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We, the Indians, as Guru of the Nations: yes, I believe in that. We can be-or once more become- the hope of mankind. But that requires efforts and courage to be ourselves culturally. Unfortunately, we live in an age of political dwarfs, political managers without vision or courage. But their time is running out.
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I think the thing that has sort of always separated me, even from when I was younger, is my ability to score goals.
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I had a great '70s. I survived it, and that's always good news.
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I am almost famous in China, because I have that Broadway cachet.
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To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in the arts. Shakespeare is the chief modern example of this supreme faculty of mankind.
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When very large stars die, they create temperatures so high that protons begin to fuse in all sorts of exotic combinations, to form all the elements of the periodic table. If, like me, you're wearing a gold ring, it was forged in a supernova explosion.
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A lot of it was, you know, you look for moments where, for instance, we were dependent on Abraham Lincoln making sure that the slaves were freed or John Kennedy bringing civil rights, or the first one I wrote about, George Washington trying to stop the British from invading and ending this country before it even began. Those were turning points where, if you had not had a president stepping up to the plate, if there wasn't a story like that, we would not be here.
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I grew up on the side of the stage. I never had a fear of an audience. I never felt like they were separated from us. We were all in the living room, and it happens to be a big living room. I continue to operate on that assumption.
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Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.
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People who say, 'There's nothing to fear from spiders' have clearly never been to Australia.
