Frances McDormand Quotes

One of the reasons I am successful as a producer is that I've been a very successful housewife.

Frances McDormand

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• I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • School
  • Research
  • Medical

• I never understood the realism of an imaginary circumstance. While I was doing 'Smoke Signals,' I relied on my instinct and what I grew up with. I had this energy, but it was a one-dimensional thing.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Doing

• I just don't want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Sometimes
  • Goals
  • Rapping

• As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Start
  • Ready
  • Busy

• My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.

  

  Damon Wayans, Jr.
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Dad

• Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.

  

  Warren Spahn
  • Business
  • Magic
  • Reputation

• People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • People
  • Understand
  • Nothing

• Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Propaganda
  • Momentum
  • Masses

• My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a laugh a minute, my father.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Funny

• The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Political
  • Party

• A busybody's work is never done.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Work
  • Done
  • Never

• I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Greatest
  • Disaster
  • Consequences

• People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • People
  • Women
  • You

• People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Think
  • Too Much

• If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Up
  • Work
  • Live

• I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Beauty
  • Makeup
  • High Heels

• But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Beginning
  • Poetry
  • Chance

• George Foreman is easier and has the bigger name and have you noticed that Foreman never calls me out or ever mentions my name? He is afraid of me like most fighters are and most people want to forget about Larry Holmes, like he never ever existed.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • People
  • Forget
  • Name

• I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious to boot. The day I found out that he didn't know everything, I grew up. It was a shock. I just thought that the man was the end-all of everything, and he knew the answer to everything. Then I found out I'd have to find out my own answers.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Up
  • Father
  • Man

• So it's true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.

  

  E. A. Bucchianeri
  • Done
  • True
  • Grief

• In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business.

  

  Carlos Alvarez
  • Up
  • Family
  • Business

• But we're such a better team than we were last year. I believe that. We'll see if it works out that way, but I believe and I think the rest of the guys in here do, too. We all want the same thing, and that's to win that Super Bowl. And if you've got a group of guys who all want the same thing, you can do some special things.

  

  Champ Bailey
  • Want
  • Team
  • Win

• One of the reasons I am successful as a producer is that I've been a very successful housewife.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Successful
  • Reasons
  • Producer