Frances McDormand Quotes

We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.

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• There are days where you do everything right and nothing goes in your favour.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Where

• Without a dog, no one will listen to your opinions for more than a few minutes without interrupting to tell you their opinions, which you won't find nearly as interesting.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Interesting
  • Dog
  • Opinions

• I would like 'I Dream of Genie' powers.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Dream
  • Like
  • Would

• I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Change
  • Stress
  • Meaning

• Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Life
  • Economic
  • Street

• Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Better
  • Now
  • Vietnam

• For me, it's easier to play with my right foot. It's simple. If I go right, I see Diego and have different solutions: I go alone or pass to Diego, or the midfield can join in. If I go the other way, the cross with my left foot is not good.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Different
  • Alone

• Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • People
  • Government
  • Intelligence

• Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Reality
  • Dreams
  • Minds

• Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling – I can so well remember it. There was always something more – behind and beyond everything – to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.

  

  Kate Greenaway
  • Remember
  • Beautiful
  • Feeling

• I was too old, too young, too fat, too thin, too tall, too short, too blond, too dark - but at some point, they're going to need the other. So I'd get really good at being the other.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • Dark
  • Short

• Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Job
  • Try
  • Circumstances

• Everyone's gotta have a voice, to be able to speak out. Left supresses right, right supresses left, and what's left and what's right? You know? It's America. You gotta be able to speak out. That's why people came here from all over the world: to have a fair shake. Not more than somebody else - the same.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Life
  • God
  • Done

• You don't know how many people come up to me and say, 'This child was conceived listening to you.'

  

  Janet Jackson
  • People
  • Up
  • Children

• The only thing that we have earned at the hands of perfect justice is perfect punishment.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Perfect
  • Justice
  • Punishment

• Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of 'That Lucky Old Sun' was inspired by 'Rhapsody in Blue' - not influenced, but inspired.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Sun
  • Inspired
  • Blue

• If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Rest
  • Ourselves
  • Feminine

• Typhoons are a sort of violent whirlwinds. Before these whirlwinds come on... there appears a heavy cloud to the northeast which is very black near the horizon, but toward the upper part is a dull reddish color. The tempest came with great violence, but after a while, the winds ceased all at once and a calm succeeded. This lasted... an hour, more or less, then the gales were turned around, blowing with great fury from the southwest.

  

  William Dampier
  • Black
  • Violence
  • Calm

• When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.

  

  Angus McKinnon Young AC/DC
  • Men
  • Shows
  • Hours

• You know why men make more money than women? Because, in the unlikely event that we're both on the Titanic and it starts to sink, for some reason, you get to leave with the kids and I have to stay - that's why I get the dollar more an hour.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Reason
  • Hours
  • Events

• All things are made of atoms - little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another. In that one sentence, you will see, there is an enormous amount of information about the world, if just a little imagination and thinking are applied.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • World
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Hours
  • Four
  • Six