Frances McDormand Quotes
I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander.
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I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.
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Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another.
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The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.
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No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the Convention which framed that instrument to make it conform as far as possible with that law.
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I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
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I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me.
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To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.
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I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.
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Water for me is so essential, like swimming.
Nastassja Kinski
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Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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Seriously, I do a lot of yoga, so I'm in control of my body.
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The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as opposed to the first trial, which was an unfair trial, a Roman holiday.
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I don't think it's in any way harmful, this marriage of media and politicians. I think it enhances the communications process considerably and makes it possible for the public to be far more aware, far more up-to-date on issues and the opposite sides of the issues.
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Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.
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The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.
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I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.
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My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful.
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And in fact, one of the central reasons why I never got involved with any drugs or anything is that I remember talking to people in maybe 1975 who saw Hendrix but couldn't remember it. I was like, 'How could that be?'
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You make me wish that birth control was retroactive.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
