Frances McDormand Quotes
There is simply too much of my life that is involved in my work that I couldn't replicate in any other way.
Quotes to Explore
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot hold my water long enough for a prolonged conversation.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
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Fashion anticipates.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
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The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.
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I'm not a very religious man, but I'm proud to be a Jew.
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'It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice, but the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.'
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A life sentence without parole protects public safety while sparing us the barbarity of killing our own. It teaches our children that violence will be punished, but not by emulating the violent. This seems eminently more consistent with American ideals than continuing to share the killing stage with some of the world's worst human rights violators.
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Since the age of 11, I have loved writing poems and fragments from my life.
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There is simply too much of my life that is involved in my work that I couldn't replicate in any other way.
