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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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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I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba - Lana Del Rey reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.
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Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.
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I just finished a Jackie Chan movie, yes. That was an experience. I can mark that off on my bucket list.
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I did a lot of standup from ages 19 to 24 but then stopped to focus on sketch with Broken Lizard.
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I like being in a collaborative and respectful environment. When you're in an environment spearheaded by ego and fear, it's the death of creativity.
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Ageing is so many different things, and cells being able to self-renew is part of the picture but not all of it.
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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.
