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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There's something about a humid, dusky evening that's kind of sexy.
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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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When I first began writing, and I told people what I wrote, I'd get a blank stare and sometimes a 'Huh?' They weren't sure what young adult literature was. Now everyone knows.
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Hillary Clinton wouldn't have make a joke about wiping the server clean with a towel or now we find out about bashing old Blackberries to get rid of them or the fact that she had 13 Blackberries.
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Teamwork requires some sacrifice up front; people who work as a team have to put the collective needs of the group ahead of their individual interests.
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To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.
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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.
