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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I'm not one for sightseeing or going around the shops when I'm on holiday. I do enough shopping when I'm at home, and like to have a complete break when I'm away.
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
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My first Olympics was Munich in 1972. I am better now than I was then, in knowledge and experience. The age of top riders generally tends to be older than in other sports because it takes a lot of time to be consistent.
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Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.
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You have to be aware. Like, I'm not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I'm not going to risk breaking a leg. I want to be dancing the way I'm dancing now for 30 more years.
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With aging, you earn the right to be loyal to yourself.
