Frances McDormand Quotes
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I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.
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Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.
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I'm an actor; I want to play roles, not a role.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.
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I didn't want to be one of those arty nutcases.
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The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.
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I have really high expectations for myself, so I just want to go out there and compete.
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The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.
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You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-gun came around? Well, here's the answer. You want to know why Mexicans allowed Americans to settle Texas in the first place? It was fear of Comanches.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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You can spend an entire day walking around in New York, whereas in L.A., it always ends at some point because you have to find a way to get home.
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A couple of my friends started having babies, and I thought, 'Maybe one day, with the right guy.' I have to find the guy first.
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This experience has also humbled me by giving me a true understanding of what millions of others face each day in their own fight against cancer.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage - they're just not stages you're allowed to see.
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Swedes, we are not - Russians, we do not want to become ... so let us be Finnish.
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I want to reach the people. This music is the people's music. It's music for your brain, for your heart, for your soul. That is what we always go to achieve. Soul united.
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If strength is measured by intelligence, honesty and depth of character, then yes, strong women are hot as hell.
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What is working stain, does not soil.
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Unless I'm on a stage, I don't want to be the event in someone's day.
