Cate Blanchett Quotes
I never want to work. Even when you're presented with these great opportunities, I think, 'I really love being in my pajamas with the kids.'
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.
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Comedy is a great weapon of attack. It's not a great weapon of support.
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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
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The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
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I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, and it's me. Of course it is natural. If somebody lived all his life in Delhi, he will write about Delhi.
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I really like reaching out and seeing the audience - they're potential audiences! And on occasion I can make them excited about going to the theater again, if they've ceased or gone less.
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That whole rivalry with the fans is not something that I can pay attention to right now. This is my new home, and whatever I can do to help out Seattle is what I need to do.
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I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.
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When you start playing tennis, you don't imagine there's a whole bureaucracy behind the tournaments and all of that. You just think about winning the cups.
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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Fuel your kids' dreams. Sometimes, that means letting them stay up past their bedtimes.
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The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.
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There's something special about shoes, they give you a high like nothing else.
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The wonderful thing about acting is you move along with your decade. The older you get, the more interesting the parts you get to play and you bring more of your personal experience to the part.
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Who would be such a fool as to make advances to his reader, advances which might end in rejection or, worse still, in acceptance?
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One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.
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There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
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Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.
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We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
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I never want to work. Even when you're presented with these great opportunities, I think, 'I really love being in my pajamas with the kids.'
