Cate Blanchett Quotes
I don't mind not looking conventionally - you know, attractive if that's what the part requires.
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I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.
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When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
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There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.
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I think the paradigm is shifting with regard to women and what we bring to the industry. I feel very blessed.
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
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I saw 'Hamilton' when it was at the Public, and I just wept profusely in my seat because this is a form I love deeply, and to watch it be reinvented in such a genius, gifted way and executed by such a brilliant company of human beings, I was overwhelmed with not just appreciation for the piece of work itself but for the possibility.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.
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At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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I have a very short attention span.
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One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.
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Many people dream about being an entrepreneur, starting their own business, working for themselves, and living the good life. Very few, however, will actually take the plunge and put everything they've got into being their own boss.
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In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.
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It makes you feel at home when you can talk to somebody and really talk about anything.
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I don't think one party has a bad vision over the other party. I have no doubts that every Indian and every Indian political leadership would like to see this country get to a much better level. We would all like to see inclusive growth.
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The events which can not be prevented, must be directed.
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I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.
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I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.
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I don't want to name names because they'd be mad at me if I did, but people who are significant novelists can't get published by real publishers at this point, or have to go through two years of trying after writing a novel that's taken them five or six years and simply can't get the thing in print. Or it gets in print and it doesn't get reviewed in the New York Times Book Review and disappears without a trace. I mean, it's terrifying. I don't know how anybody can stand it. It's such an enormous amount of work and the economics of it are really quite brutal.
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Pride of race is the antidote to prejudice.
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I don't mind not looking conventionally - you know, attractive if that's what the part requires.
