Cate Blanchett Quotes
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductible. What do you think they do with that $6,000 deductible? They are still a nonpayer.
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I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.
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Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I think the fame aspect, there was definitely a period when I had to get used to it. My family had to get used to it, too. It's exciting.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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I don't take on a fight just for a fight. I don't tilt at windmills.
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I don't have a favorite author; I have favorite books. 'Moby Dick' is a favorite book, but Melville was a drunk who beat his wife. 'Moveable Feast' by Hemingway, but I would not like him personally. He was a stupid macho person who believed in shooting animals for fun, but that book was incredible!
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Souffles don't deserve their reputation as potential disasters.
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I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.
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There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
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I was kind of an unhappy kid. I always felt like a cynical New Yorker trapped in a little kid's body. I started to get some pretty bad anxiety disorders around puberty, which totally did not work with growing up a mile away from the beach. I started cutting my own hair.
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Bro, how are you going to tap on the neck, on the choke? Go to sleep, man. Be a man.
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Fighting forces, particularly ground forces, have to operate on the basis of unit cohesion.
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The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.
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I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.
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It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.
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The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.
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Ever since we were little, we were so on fire for our dreams. We never let anyone blow our flames out.
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I'm either sitting very still or running very fast.
