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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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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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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I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!
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You can work really hard on your physicality, on your craft, on the films you do. You can choose the best of directors, the best of productions, get the best technicians, you can put your entire body and soul into the making of a film, but at the end of the day, it all depends on the mood of that one audience member that goes into that theater.
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I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.
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I have invested in four social networks. More than any other. But that's in Russia and Poland.
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If you pick up an eighteenth-century play, at the top it says 'The Argument,' and then you have a list of characters, and then you have the play. I was just always struck by that - that, of course, good drama is about conflict.
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Unless I'm on a stage, I don't want to be the event in someone's day.
