Frances McDormand Quotes
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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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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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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.
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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.
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People always say, and my family has said it to me, that you know who your real friends are when you're at your lowest point and you don't have a job or whatever.
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Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; that's what we played, you know? We were pretty much based on Booker T. and the M.G.'s.
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The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
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If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.
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When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
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With aging, you earn the right to be loyal to yourself.
