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Culture civilizes us, and that's why every single despotic regime has tried to smash [the arts].
Cate Blanchett
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Cate Blanchett
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: May 14
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Melbourne
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Catherine Élise Blanchett
Catherine Elise Blanchett
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Particularly at the moment, it's an incredibly optimistic thing to bring children into the world.
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I don't think about being beautiful or not being beautiful. ... It's more about feeling confident inside your own skin really and thinking about yourself as little as possible.
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The thing I love about live performance the most, is that the doors are closed, the lights are turned down, and the audience has to be reverential to what's happening onstage.
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I think the downside of the Internet is that speaking-or writing-has become the point in and of itself.
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The notion of fate and destiny is a very Greek concept. Working in the theater you do think a lot about that, because as a storyteller you do think, 'At what point was this always going to happen and what part have I got a hand in being able to change things?'
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You do get scrutinized in the digital age. You know they're zooming in on every pore, which you've got to forget about.
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Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.
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If you over plan New Year's Eve it's going to be a disaster so you have to be alive to changes.
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I'm not focused on what other people think of me.
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If I'm not good at acting, I'm not good at anything else.
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Absolutely, I think that is where a scent is so powerful because it harnesses our memory and our memory is a very emotional place. I do like the smell of excitement.
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I'm so misunderstood!
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I'm of the opinion that it's okay to be silent, to not speak if you don't have anything to say.
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