Frances McDormand Quotes
My position has always been that the way people age and the signs that we show of aging is nature's way of tattooing. It's natural scarification, and the life you lead gives you the symbols and the emblems of your life, the road map you followed.
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.
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I'm really excited about the prospect of deepening what is already a really strong relationship that I have with the people of Broward.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.
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I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.
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I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.
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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
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You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.
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Life's too short not to have fun with what you wear.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.
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Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.
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Portia and I constantly say to each other, 'We are so lucky.' Sometimes it's lying in bed at night before I go to sleep, and I just say thank you to whatever, whoever is out there.
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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The first act is writing, the second act is filming, the third act is releasing. If you have to partake in the third act, it hurts the first act of the next one. It's like a prizefight. You get punched.
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My position has always been that the way people age and the signs that we show of aging is nature's way of tattooing. It's natural scarification, and the life you lead gives you the symbols and the emblems of your life, the road map you followed.
