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 don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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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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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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To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
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I want to make sure that any young person or anyone, really, who is looking up to me - who sees a glimpse of who I am as a person - that they see no shame, that they see pride, and that I'm truly unabashed about the person that I am.
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My first audition as a little girl was 'Interview with the Vampire' for Kirsten Dunst's part. Back then, they were meeting all different kinds of girls, and I was one of them. There's got to be an audition tape somewhere on VHS. Who would have known that many years later I would be on a vampire show?
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Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
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For me, acting comes straight from the heart. In that sense I don't act at all. I think that to feel the character's pain I have to be myself. Somewhere audiences see that.
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There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way.
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The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.
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Those are the moments athletes live for - we live for those exhilarating, breathless, take-your-breath-away, you're-on-the-seat-of-your-chair moments.
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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
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Having a co-founder is incredible, but it has to be the right person: someone who shares your values and ethics, absolutely, but also someone who has a similar vision for the future in terms of their appetite for risk, for low salaries, for hard work.
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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.
