Cate Blanchett Quotes
I'm of the opinion that it's okay to be silent, to not speak if you don't have anything to say.
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I've never had an audition like that before. They don't let you know about anything on 'Mad Men,' because it's a spoiler for everybody. I thought I was on the right track when I was cracking everybody up.
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It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.
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I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.
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That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.
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Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
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Play for Canada? Why not? I have a Canadian passport.
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Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.
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Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.
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I just took everything so seriously in my early twenties. But now I'm like, 'life can be fun.' You don't have to overthink everything. I've found a way to be more at peace with things. I'm looking forward to turning 30.
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Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.
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Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
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If the books are selling, the money will follow.
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I don't care about making a fool of myself on stage anymore. I don't care what people think.
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That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.
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This feeling of not belonging to the same sensation which grips you in a dream, you find yourself walking through an unfamiliar district. On waking you realize, little by little, that the pattern of its streets had overlaid with the one with which, in day time, you are familiar.
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The poignancy which all beauty has.
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People think that if you get a lot of views, the ad truck just shows up at your front door. That's just not true.
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I'm actually rubbish at selfies. I always feel a bit ridiculous doing it unless I'm with a bunch of friends, where I'll usually stand at the back with a huge grin on my face!
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The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.
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I always found that if you handle a problem in a benevolent way and a transparent way and involve other people, so it's just not your personal opinion, that people get to the other side of these difficult conversations being more enthusiastic.
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Most people don't see half of what's in front of them. Your visual cortex does a shit load of imaging processing before the signal even gets to your brain, whose priorities are still checking the ancestral Savannah for dangerous predators, edible berries and climable trees. That's why a sudden cat in the night can make you jump and some people when distracted, can walk right out in front of a bus. Your brain just isn't interested in those large moving chunks of metal or the static heaps of brightly colored stuff that piles up in drifts around us. Never mind all that, says your brain, it's those silent fur-covered merchants of death you've got to watch out for.
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I'm of the opinion that it's okay to be silent, to not speak if you don't have anything to say.
