Cate Blanchett Quotes
I want to see a connected and progressive future for Australia, where we harness our greatest natural resources: sun, wind, and brain power.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.
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I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
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I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music... Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time - the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.
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I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.
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I don't want to play earnest. I'd rather play somebody who's kind of sleazy. It's much more fun, especially in a comedy. You don't want to be some earnest guy who's just trying to do the right thing but can't. I want to be doing the wrong thing intentionally.
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.
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The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
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The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.
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To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
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EssJay was appointed at the request of and unanimous support of the ArbCom.
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It's refreshing going from getting picked on in middle school to getting my name screamed out across the street.
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If you're trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.
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I want to see a connected and progressive future for Australia, where we harness our greatest natural resources: sun, wind, and brain power.
