Frances McDormand Quotes
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
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Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.
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Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
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I always regret leaving home if I don't get at least four or five surfs in the week before I leave. I try to be in the water as much as possible before leaving, and it's the one thing I miss massively.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.
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A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
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When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
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I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
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How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.
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I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.
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Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
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For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.
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I don't like attacking.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.
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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
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I never understood the idea that I was a 'backpack rapper.' I think that's a lazy way that people started thinking. They like saying that because I got dreads. I look like I belong a certain place, so it's easy to put everything in a box.
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With aging, you earn the right to be loyal to yourself.
