Cate Blanchett Quotes

You do not want to be in a creative organisation with everybody being like-minded and stroking each other's creative egos. You want differences of opinion... constructively.

Cate Blanchett

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• Just look at 'K-pop' - who would've expected American fans to embrace it? It's really cool to be one of those artists who can break through the American market. I'm not trying to conquer America; I just want to make music and see if people like it.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Children

• Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Car
  • Dangerous
  • Situations

• Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Time
  • Doing
  • Tough

• I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Life
  • Tragic
  • Beginner

• As a kid, my grandma would be dancing all the time.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Time
  • Dancing
  • Grandma

• It's special to have people see you and tell you, 'You make me laugh.' That makes me feel good. I think if you have the talent to do it, it's your duty to pass it on.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Good
  • Talent

• The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• I grew up with music very much in my life. I achieved success by combining my training as an accountant with my family upbringing and love of music.

  

  Zarin Mehta
  • Life
  • Music
  • Family

• If the books are selling, the money will follow.

  

  Larry Kirshbaum
  • Money
  • Follow
  • Selling

• My beliefs encompass all religions. But I never show my religious inclination in my films. My characters have dark sides; they aren't the god-fearing characters. It wasn't a conscious decision. I'm a very lazy and emotional person who connects with the common man.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • God
  • Man
  • Dark

• The upside of web-based journalism is that everybody gets a chance. The downside is that everybody gets a chance.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Chance
  • Journalism
  • Upside

• It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Deep

• O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.

  

  T. S. Eliot

• I call my balls the bush twins.

  

  Zach Galifianakis

• A Looking In View: Jerry Cantrell on Alice in Chains' legacy. The Skinny (November 13, 2013).

  

  Jerry Cantrell
  • Legacy
  • November

• As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.

  

  Dorothy Day
  • Up

• I host reality shows; the last thing I ever wanted to do was be a contestant on one.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Reality

• The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Real
  • Feeling
  • Lonely

• Not only is it OK for a woman to write about a tough guy, but it might even help sell him.

  

  Ann Maxwell
  • Help
  • Guy

• The Bush administration will go down in history as the Torture Team.

  

  Alex Gibney
  • History
  • Team

• Foreign universities have two aspects - content and brand. If we focus on the brand, we could lose out on the content. The idea is to focus on the content.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Focus
  • Brand
  • Content

• You do not want to be in a creative organisation with everybody being like-minded and stroking each other's creative egos. You want differences of opinion... constructively.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Opinion
  • Differences
  • Organisation