Cate Blanchett Quotes
Australia is a remarkable country with incredible technical and physical resources and a capacity to be a world leader in renewables.
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Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
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Our poker table is eight guys, and then I'm the ninth; I'm usually the only girl at the table.
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The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and left home to meet her mother in the big city so that she could pursue that dream. I left South Africa and met my mother in Vancouver and not long after that was given the opportunity to perform on the stage and have people chant my name.
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I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
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I just don't know the art of making friends with girls. And that's the reason why I've never had a single girl as a friend. Also, I'm so engrossed in cricket that I've never found an opportunity to interact with girls very closely. In a way, it's better, as my mind doesn't get diverted!
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I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.
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My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.
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When I was a kid a long time ago, when the sun rose, I was outside on my bike. If my parents were lucky - poor parents! - I would be home before it got dark.
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Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.
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Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
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How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important.
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I think it's unfair that people can't give assets to whoever they want. When I die, my assets can go to my wife. And a gay person - you ought to have a system where maybe you can just say, 'You can give your assets to anybody you want.'
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I like the slow Scandinavian pace. I don't need cliffhangers in every chapter because I don't want to make a Hollywood movie out of it.
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You must know what you are capable of.
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Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.
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We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows that hidden inside himself there's a wizard and a king, he also knows that when he's playing himself in his daily life, he's playing a part, he's performing, just as he's performing when he plays a part on stage.
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I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity.
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The formula for a hit is saying what people want to hear.
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Don't try to be perfect. Do the best you can. Enlist help!
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But now behold, In the quick forge and working-house of thought, How London doth pour out her citizens!
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A Husband without Faults is a dangerous Observer.
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For me, practice isn't doing scales but doing things like writing, jamming with other people, or playing gigs.
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There are golfers everywhere who may never get a chance to play a links course in Scotland, a tree-lined course in America or the sand belts of Australia. Hopefully I can bring some of those elements into their backyards.
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Australia is a remarkable country with incredible technical and physical resources and a capacity to be a world leader in renewables.
