Frances McDormand Quotes
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My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.
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I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
Garry Kasparov -
Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete.
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I got to see Jack White. I love his new album. There's a song on the album called 'I Think I Should Go to Sleep' that my son loves. We play it on a loop around the house, and he just bounces around.
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I have written more than 100 novels and novellas since 1983 - I was first published in 1985. There was an overlap of three years with my teaching career, but finally I felt good enough about my writing career to quit teaching and write full time.
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For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
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I have literally played the most interesting parts since I turned 40.
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Each man seeks his own interest, not the general interest. Let his own selfish interests be touched, and all concord is at an end.
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Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.
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We don't need a lot of initiatives for women in film; what we need is money.
