Frances McDormand Quotes
I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven.
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
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My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.
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Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk.
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The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.
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Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist.
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I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven.
