Frances McDormand Quotes
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
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I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.
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I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.
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Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
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Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
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Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.
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It takes heart to be in political life.
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The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
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I majored in political science and English, but starting from the age of 17, I've paid for everything that I've had in my life. It was a personal choice. My parents would have helped me in any way whatsoever, but for me, you know what? I can make my own way.
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When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall.
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I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens.
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I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.
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I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.
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I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
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Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
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I never had any social life, just played the piano and studied, studied, studied.
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We've been called the soundtrack of people's lives. There have been lots of downs, of course but mostly ups. That EW&F is still clicking at least twenty years on and has a life of its own, that the songs have stayed alive - we're like a good book that people go back to.
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Sick or well, blind or seeing, bond or free, we are here for a purpose and however we are situated, we please God better with useful deeds than with many prayers or pious resignation. The temple or church is empty unless the good of life fills it . . . holy if only . . . we offer the only sacrifices ever commanded-the love that is stronger than hate and the faith that overcometh doubt.
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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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That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.
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Concept is what makes actors raise their game.
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Who can worry about a career? Have a life.
