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.
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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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?'
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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.
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You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.
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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
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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.
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As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
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My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
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If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
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There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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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.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.
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I'm extremely particular how my look should be in a film.
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The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.
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I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.
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I didn’t even know I could write music, but somehow Walt did. He tapped my hidden talents.
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Self-parody is the first portent of age.
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If there is one person I could have on my side against impossible odds, it’s her.
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In their pure form, the martial arts demand the intense awareness of the meditative mind, and have nothing to do with anger or wanton aggression. A practitioner is taught from the outset that the skills must never be used for personal gain, but only in self-defence or in the protection of others -- and even then only enough force as is absolutely necessary should be used.
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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.
