Frances McDormand Quotes
If you take it as a compliment that you don't look your age, then you're really shooting yourself in the foot.
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.
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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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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.
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I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.
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I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
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I remember someone once said there is a practical aspect to my designs, and I remember thinking, 'That doesn't sound so creative,' but that is actually the truth. There is a practicality to it. I don't design just to design. There is a reason and, hopefully, an interesting reason behind it - that is where my creativity comes in.
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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It scares me to think that one day I'm not going to be in school anymore.
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I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
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Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!
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I'm a Nintendo geek, so I'm a pretty big Nintendo fan.
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If you take it as a compliment that you don't look your age, then you're really shooting yourself in the foot.
