Frances McDormand Quotes
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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I am confident that, as elected officials, we can work together with religious, business and civic leaders, as well as the LGBT community, to develop policies that treat all people with dignity and respect.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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War diminishes both civil and economic rights.
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My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before.
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I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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In 1995, the Clinton Administration reached an agreement with Cuban government that any refugee caught at sea would be sent back to Cuba while any refugee who reaches the United States shores would be allowed to begin the process to citizenship after one year.
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It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.
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I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to do all sorts of things like that - but I don't want to put my career on hold. I'd have to take three weeks off to do something like that. Maybe it's something I'd think about after it's all ended.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
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You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
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I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.
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More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!
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End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.
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Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.
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There's a moment of truth that comes when you are performing, and you are all alone.
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Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.
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Go out and find a copy of 'The Shrinking Of Treehorn' and its sequel, 'Treehorn's Treasure.' Written by Florence Parry Heide and illustrated by the great Edward Gorey, master of the gothic and the macabre, these books are small masterpieces.
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We abstained from having sex until we got married.
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I'm not really that interested in going back to playing small supporting roles.
