Frances McDormand Quotes
I tried taking a year off when Pedro was a toddler because I really wanted to be around, but it wasn't good for any of us.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
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Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
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I am not honest.
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Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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I hope I have a long career, but I really don't think about the future like that. I live, like, for right now, honestly. I take it however it comes.
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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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I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
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If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we're a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don't need. It wouldn't be entirely wrong, either.
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I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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I will say that Marvel is 100 times more secretive than 'Game of Thrones.' Like, they're not even on the same playing field.
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A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
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When we did 'The Last Picture Show,' the whole cast was unknowns, and we all got careers from it. Well, I don't think this could be done now.
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Musical theater is often seen as a lesser form of acting, although I don't see it that way.
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Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama; you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.
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I tried taking a year off when Pedro was a toddler because I really wanted to be around, but it wasn't good for any of us.
