Cate Blanchett Quotes
Every time I create a character, I don't assume they speak like I do, even if they're Australian.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.
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Part of the reason why Kobe Bryant is such a big inspiration to me is because he was shipped off to the Lakers right out of high school. He went from English class to the Great Western Forum.
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Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't have the extra capacity or extra resources to meet their needs.
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It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on the floor or a pedestal, and loosely applies to a certain history of the use of that term.
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I have to be careful what I eat before going onstage, to avoid an upset stomach.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.
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I feel like I'm meant to be a mom.
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If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.
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At 11, I got my first job in a mini-series for America, and it was very exciting.
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From a person whose living depends on other people buying her creative work, this may sound odd, but one of my favorite things about the steampunk subculture is its do-it-yourself attitude.
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I think I was a shy kid. I grew up without television. I had a dog, and we lived up in the White Mountains in the summer, and I had no friends up there. And I would just go play hide-and-seek with my dog and probably had some imaginary friends.
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These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.
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Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.
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I always find myself gravitating toward stories of transformation, and one of those periods is teenage life. When teenagers are figuring out who they are and have one foot in childhood and the other in adulthood - I think that's a really mythic moment to tell stories about.
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Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.
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A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
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It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience.
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Reader was by far the most popular feed reader out there, and its user base had been in a steep decline for two years before Google decided to shut it down.
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Every time I create a character, I don't assume they speak like I do, even if they're Australian.
