Cate Blanchett Quotes
Before having children, I think I probably approached work very differently, and you become much more economical and pragmatic about your relationship to it.

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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.
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When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
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Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.
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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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Once we relieve them from sanctions, their economy opens up, and they can sell oil and pistachios and whatever else they sell around the world. That was why Iran needed a deal. Everyone knows they fund terrorism around the world. Having that extra money will add a lot of problems and create a lot more hot spots.
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Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred.
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I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.
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For months, Obama administration officials attacked Snowden's motives and said the work of the NSA was distorted by selective leaks and misinterpretations.
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If you happen to live close to the desert border, you can pretty much calculate how long it will be before you have to carry your kids away and abandon your home and your life as you know it.
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I have a very balanced posture about the political situation in my country.
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You can't get so serious as to not realize that what we do is entertainment, but when you have the chance to provoke thought or advance discussion on a topic, it's just the icing on the cake.
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It has been a whirlwind really, it all happened so quickly! I auditioned for Australian Idol for the 3rd time... to see where I was and if I had improved with my singing; and the next thing I knew in the final 12 and it went nuts from there - I walked straight off stage at the finals into a press conference and didn't have a days rest 'till New Years Day.
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No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or nothing. That's a very powerful perception.
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As we deliver airplanes and we enable global travel and global cargo delivery, it provides overall economic growth around the world as well.
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Healing is an inside job.
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Before having children, I think I probably approached work very differently, and you become much more economical and pragmatic about your relationship to it.