Frances McDormand Quotes

I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.

Frances McDormand

• Depression
• Mental Illness

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• Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Musicals
  • Guardian
  • Classics

• I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'

  

  J. Cole
  • Time
  • Why
  • Friends

• You can write whatever you want about me in websites and newspapers, but no one really knows me. They get the idea that I'm a tough, heroic figure, but I'm a sensitive pussycat.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Me
  • Idea
  • Tough

• My boring, mundane, diligent kind of golf works sometimes. Actually, it works all the time. And sometimes, on the greatest stages, it really does flourish.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Time
  • Golf
  • Greatest

• I'm going to prove to the fans, going to prove to my teammates, that I can be a better defensive player, offensive player, to win games.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Player
  • Better
  • Win

• I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Time
  • Career
  • Past

• I had a nervous breakdown when I was 17 or 18, when I had to go and work with Marky Mark and Herb Ritts. It didn't feel like me at all. I felt really bad about straddling this buff guy. I didn't like it.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Guy

• My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.'

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Life
  • Family
  • Business

• It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen. It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them... 'Black Messiah' is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.

  

  D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Black

• Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Men
  • Society
  • Progressive

• Through thicke and thin, both over banke and bush In hope her to attaine by hooke or crooke.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Hope

• The least we desire from the institutions of the free world, and especially the US and the countries of the European Union, is that they appreciate our struggle for freedom. We want them to discharge their responsibilities towards vulnerable people and support them in the face of the cruelty of rulers who continue to kill.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • World
  • Free

• So gewiß ist der allein glücklich und groß, der weder zu herrschen noch zu gehorchen braucht, um etwas zu sein!

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• The plow has probably done more harm - in the long run - than the sword.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Long
  • Done

• Heart of my heart, the world is young; Love lies hidden in every rose! Every song that the skylark sung Once, we thought, must come to a close: Now we know the spirit of song, Song that is merged in the chant of the whole, Hand in hand as we wander along, What should we doubt of the years that roll?

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • World
  • Heart
  • Song

• I spent a year at Southwestern Louisiana Institute, then transferred back to the University of Texas, where I majored in English and history.

  

  Joe Jamail
  • History
  • English
  • Texas

• While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Reading

• I don't know if I'd ever sing a whole album because I don't know if I'd want to hear my voice for more than three or four songs.

  

  Mark Ronson

• If you are a real leader, every single thing is your fault.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Real
  • Single

• My dad was working abroad, in Iraq, and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him, in Baghdad, off and on. For the first ten years of my life, we used to go backwards and forwards to Baghdad, so that was quite amazing. I spent a lot of time traveling around the Middle East.

  

  Andy Serkis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Dad

• I like to hike and cook. I enjoy furniture and design - not making it, just looking at it. I'm always kind of trying to spread my interests around and try new things.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Trying
  • Design

• Depression can kill you. It can also be a spiritually enriching experience. It's really an important part of my theology now and my spirituality that life is not perfect, and I grew up wanting it to be and thinking that if it wasn't, I could make it that way, and I had to acknowledge that I had all kinds of flaws and sadnesses and problems.

  

  Krista Tippett
  • Life
  • Up
  • Thinking

• We're in the money, the skies are sunny; old man depression, you are through, you done us wrong!

  

  Al Dubin
  • Money
  • Depression
  • Wrong

• I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Depression
  • Mental Illness