Cate Blanchett Quotes
When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.
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Age for me is just a number.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
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Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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You don't quit after you get beat. You pick yourself up, and you start rebuilding to accomplish your goals.
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Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
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Since almost all Negroes are workers, live on wages, and suffer from the high cost of food, clothing and shelter, it is obvious that the Republican and Democratic Parties are opposed to their interests.
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The little kids in the stands are going to give you a good cheer. Sometimes, that overrides the other people.
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it.
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An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
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I tend to think you're fearless when you recognize why you should be scared of things, but do them anyway.
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I am not a little girl anymore, dazzled by your magic. It is my magic, now, too.
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When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.
