Frances McDormand Quotes
It was really fascinating for everyone involved in 'Fargo' that Marge Gunderson became the iconic character she did. I think it was something about the cultural zeitgeist and what was happening with women in the workplace.
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
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If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.
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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
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I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.
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Success is really about your mindset.
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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
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I grew a reputation for always asking questions and being nosy.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.
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I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.
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One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.'
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I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
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American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'
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I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all.
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We're going to live longer than our parents' generation, and there comes a point when you ask yourself, 'What am I going do?' You can only play so much golf.
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This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.
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A period film is a gift for a cinematographer.
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A patchwork solution of provincial targets is an admission of defeat and a statement that we have failed our children and grandchildren.
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It was really fascinating for everyone involved in 'Fargo' that Marge Gunderson became the iconic character she did. I think it was something about the cultural zeitgeist and what was happening with women in the workplace.
