Frances McDormand Quotes
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We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.
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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
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Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter.
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You don't need to follow trends to be stylish.
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The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone; its meaning is far from stable. What it says - 'Notice me, feed me, mother me' - is not what it means, for such attentions constitute an agonising test of that will, and also threaten to return the body to the dreaded 'normality' it has been such ecstasy to escape.
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I want it all. I want the Pepsi endorsement. I want the arena shows. I want Times Square!
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My grandma blows my mind. To me, she exemplifies what a loving, accepting Christian is.
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There are very few things that I love more than being on stage and performing, but more than anything, I want to be a positive role model for teenage girls.
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Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.
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I've been a skinny girl my whole life. I just don't sit down - I'm always on the go. It must be down to the genes. We have a healthy body image in my house and great appetites. It'd be hard for you to find a food I don't love.
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I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.
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I loved drawing, but I just couldn't do it to the level that some of my friends could. That pulled me up unconsciously because I wanted to be like them, and I wanted to draw.
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I'm doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower'... It was a book I read when I was younger, and it just changed my life, and I just wanted to be a part of it.
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You can give into a relationship and warmth and the arms of another person.
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My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
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Ninth generation American, ma'am, and I'm the first one in my family born with all my rights. I'm a ninth generation American. And so we have not escaped because I went to Yale all the problems of this country.
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Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.
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The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.
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Writing is physical work. It's sweaty work. You just can't will yourself to become a good writer. You really have to work at it.
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Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship.
