Cate Blanchett Quotes
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.
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When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.
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I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.
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I want to know who my client is. I see her on Instagram, but it's another thing to get to chat with her.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
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London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.
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My biggest fears aren't with my work. My biggest fears are walking through hospital doors. Once you can face that, being fearless about your work is easy.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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In some families, parents don't read or don't have the money to spend on books.
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When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
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Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.
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My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.
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I'm a big believer in 'pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start again.'
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Talent survives and remains while beauty is diluted.
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We Greeks are the blacks of Europe.
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Everyone should be good at what they do.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.
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I don't think policy makers surprise unnecessarily. You don't pick surprise as a part of your policy. Markets value a certain amount of predictability. But there are certain areas where surprise is a tool.
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Friends enhance our ability to think and act.
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I think it's so easy to be judgmental of other people's decisions.
