Frances McDormand Quotes
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Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.
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Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.
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If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more. Through the darkness which shrouds our prospects, the ark of safety is visible. Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters.
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I don't get recognised that much in the street.
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.
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Interior design is a business of trust.
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I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.
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One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next generation, about which substances are worth ingesting, and for what purpose, and which are not.
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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I love to sing random stuff. That's exciting for me.
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When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.
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It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
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I think the purpose of test screenings is different for the studio and for the filmmaker. For the studio, I think they want to know whether the film works or not.
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Step out from behind the words. When you're a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they're not. You are this living breathing bad hair day kind of person.
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Israel, in general, should learn from other nations. We have a tendency to teach the world. In many cases, we should learn from the world, because they make advances.
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The reaction that I got from 'Diamonds' I would have expected to get from 'House of the Rising Sun' or one of the other songs.
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It's sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal.
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I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
