Frances McDormand Quotes
I swear a lot; I always have. So does my husband. Our son, surprisingly, does not swear much at all.
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My parents separated when I was very small. I grew up with my mother, and I was a single child then. She was very independent, doing her things and having fun alone and working.
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I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.
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'Sixth Street' is probably a new chapter for me. All of the songs were written in my apartment where I'm most comfortable, and at that point, I understood who I was and knew what I was feeling about life.
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There is sometimes a tendency to assume that everyone in this great country has adequate housing. But when you go to certain places, certain neighborhoods, both urban and rural, you find out that's not the case, and I think we have to do much more.
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Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
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Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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I have a great support network - my family, my model agency Storm, and people I work with in the fashion industry. And, of course, there are all my followers on Twitter who stop me from feeling lonely; I love them all. They keep me grounded.
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I think I was given a gift to play golf and to be mentally strong.
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He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
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If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal that you stopped one plot, it may tip our hand.
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My books are about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations.
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It took me a couple years to get over the stereotype I was letting myself get caught up on, being a football player trying to start a career in music.
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New York is such a versatile city, and there's always something new to discover.
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I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.
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I swear a lot; I always have. So does my husband. Our son, surprisingly, does not swear much at all.
