Frances McDormand Quotes
Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.
Frances McDormand
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
A. B. Yehoshua
I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
Sam Jaeger
The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.
Naguib Mahfouz
You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.
Cameron Diaz
Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
D. H. Lawrence
Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.
Carl Clinton Van Doren
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
E. B. White
San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
Gavin Newsom
I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
Imogen Cunningham
I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.
Jackie Chan
I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
Mahesh Babu
The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
There are always two parties, the party of the Past and the party of the Future: the Establishment and the Movement. At times the resistance is reanimated, the schism runs under the world and appears in Literature, Philosophy, Church, State and social customs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'd sell my grandmother for a bit of definition.
Paddy Ashdown
I think the older that I'm getting, the more I'm understand what a privileged job I have, and what an opportunity I have. Now I'm directing films and I'm getting my first movie in America off the ground, and you start to understand how the system really works.
Paddy Considine
I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.
Garrett Hedlund
I spent 23 years in the military. I think I'm in a good position to make those judgments on what is necessary in the military and what is not necessary, without buying a lot of things that would not really add to our security.
John Glenn
Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.
Frances McDormand
