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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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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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 was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.
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God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.
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John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood.
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I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
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The restaurant chefs in Spain are breaking ground, but in terms of the everyday cooking in Spain I still hear people coming back and saying they were disappointed. I think it's because they're expecting the chef stuff.
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I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.
