Frances McDormand Quotes
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I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.
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If you are the wife of a governor or the wife of a vice president, I think you can be prepared for it.
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I think I remember being held by my mum as a baby.
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Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.
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I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.
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I think that, as athletes, sometimes we have the opportunities to make an impact. When it's authentic, I think there's room to share your opinion in an appropriate way.
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I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.
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I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.
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Young adults in their late 20s are confronted by so many choices - there are so many different paths to choose. Sometimes I think we just fill our lives with stuff so we don't really make any choice at all, which is certainly incredibly luxurious.
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I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
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I think our chances are not looking great today but the only way to fail for me is just not to try.
Garry Kasparov -
Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.
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During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.
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If you bet on Microsoft, you are not going to ask anymore, 'Hey, where is the innovation?' The challenge going forward is how do we keep up with it.
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When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn't let me drink. So I was devastated. All I could do was read, and I read and I read. And I'd read something like, you know, 'Subtle hints of cassis.'
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If you do a job another's way, he or she must take the responsibility. If you do it your way, you must take the responsibility.
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I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness.
