Cate Blanchett Quotes
The more you can remove the obstacles between you and the world as a woman, the easier and simpler life becomes.
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I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.
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I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
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The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.
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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
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I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.
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A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.
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It is not true that we shall necessarily progress if our political conditions undergo a change, irrespectively of the manner in which it is brought about. If the means employed are impure, the change will not be in the direction of progress but very likely in the opposite.
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Whether naïve on my part or not, it seemed worth taking the time to try to convince others that their lives possessed beauty and meaning worth preserving and honoring.
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
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I haven't had a drink in thirteen years, but occasionally I'm tempted to have one beer. The problem is that if I have that one beer, I wake up in Tijuana four days later with a tattoo and a sore ass.
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We believe that the farm should be building 'forgiveness' into the ecosystem. What does that mean? That a more forgiving ecosystem is one that can better handle drought, flood, disease, pestilence.
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If you're blindly loyal to me, then you're just acting like a crony of mine. If you say you admire me because of the principles for which I stand, I understand that, but then you also have the right to call me to the carpet when you think I'm falling short.
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When I was a kid, I loved figure skating. But in Mexico, they kind of push you toward hockey.
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My unanticipated success as a sportscaster is a perfect example of the importance of saying yes to yourself, even when you are uncertain.
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Drag wasn't really on Broadway. It was considered low-class.
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All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.
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The more you can remove the obstacles between you and the world as a woman, the easier and simpler life becomes.
