Frances McDormand Quotes
I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children.
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My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
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Accept loss forever.
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Maybe because I'm a child of the '80s, but for me, a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven't seen the original, then you don't understand the second one. Like 'Back to the Future 2.' If you haven't seen the first one, you're not going to get anything out of 'Back to the Future 2.'
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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
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Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
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I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.
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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I was about nine years old when a teacher administered my IQ test. Unfortunately, as I was nine, I didn't know that I needed to keep the paperwork for future reference.
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Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism' that deprived the individual of his or her natural rights.
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Terry's mother worked in the film industry for many years. She always wanted him to marry an actress.
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On thee, Jesus, all our hopes depend. In thee all power is vested, even power to make sinful creatures instrumental in enlightening the heathen.
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With corsets, it's interesting when you put them on, realizing that's what women actually wore. They're just so constricting.
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But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days.
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I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children.
