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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I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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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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Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
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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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I don't believe that employers should have access to an employee's private passwords, including Facebook.
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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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But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.
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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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There are plenty of good Indian writers in English, and none of us feel we are carrying the burden of being a poster boy.
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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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“It’s okay to like me,” I tell her. “Eventually, just about everyone does.
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I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter with Christianity.
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You're a socialite because you're born into it. That's not what I want.
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Israel is not the safest place in the world for Jews. Melbourne in Australia is better. Teaneck, New Jersey, is safer.
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Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.
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People who say, 'There's nothing to fear from spiders' have clearly never been to Australia.
