Cate Blanchett Quotes
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I could see myself in some sort of pioneer bonnet, it's my childhood fantasy, but I think I look too Jewish for the prairie.
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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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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One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.
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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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I like to be against the odds.
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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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The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
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Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.
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Some people don't understand that I - as an artist and a person - I want to make my own decisions and create the music that I personally like.
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Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
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I think it's so easy to be judgmental of other people's decisions.
