Frances McDormand Quotes
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I like the fact that Austin's the first place I've ever lived where there's a real sense of community. People care about their neighbors.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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With Lille, we could have gone to the South of France, and people wouldn't have recognised us. But at Chelsea, the players are at another level. Everything has changed – the language, the country – but it is up to me to adapt.
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Unless you're Gisele, you wake up some days and feel ugly. When that happens, I accept that I'm not perfect and it's OK; I can start over again tomorrow.
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The actresses I've known support each other very much. If you have a level of confidence in what you're doing, then you don't feel threatened. We all have different things to offer.
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.
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We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
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My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
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The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.
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I cannot approach someone; I lack the confidence when it comes to the guy I desire. I'm very good when it comes to matchmaking and hooking others up. But I can't help my own cause.
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Til I was 10 years, I didn't know I had only two siblings. I always thought I had 10 and that they were all my family.
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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
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I miss the Bay Area - the kind of laid-back lifestyle. Because in Hong Kong, you're going, like, 90 miles an hour, which is fun when you're young.
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Sometimes I will endanger my own life to pleasure a woman.
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But friends, those I wanted to please? There are so few, so few... and you're one of them. You... because you have such a gift for life. You grab hold of it with both hands. You move, you dance, you know how to make the rain and the sunshine in a home. You have this incredible gift for making people around you happy. You're so at ease, so at ease on this little planet.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
