Frances McDormand Quotes
I've given just as much of my life to that, and I practiced it with the same zeal, as I have acting. And I think that many of my skill sets from being a housewife I used for producing. Because you don't stop until it's done.
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Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That's the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.
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I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.
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Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
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I've done stuff in the past and followed in the footsteps of my heroes, and each time, it felt a little bit surreal.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really.
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I don't just want to be a cute girl in a comedy or the actress who just does the same thing over and over again. I want to play roles that are distinct. I want to have a more varied career like actresses Viola Davis or Angela Bassett - those are the people that I grew up watching and admiring.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
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It's hard to strike that balance: to tell a kid that life isn't fair, but also recognize and enforce in them the reality that their choices matter.
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I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.
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I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.
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I know how to put it into a melody and make it comical but sexual at the same time.
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To me, I think justice is part of forgiving, if it is well done with love.
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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
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When I was younger, I read a book by Frank Barnaby, this wonderful nuclear physicist - he said that media had a responsibility, that all sectors of society had a responsibility to try and progress things and move things forward. And that fascinated me, because I'd been messing around with a camera most of my life.
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There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.
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I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.
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I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over.
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Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points.
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I've given just as much of my life to that, and I practiced it with the same zeal, as I have acting. And I think that many of my skill sets from being a housewife I used for producing. Because you don't stop until it's done.
