Frances McDormand Quotes
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
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The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.
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I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.
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I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven't had very good modeling in submission.
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I still enjoy doing the things I've always done, like going to a monthly dance party at a club downtown.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
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To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.
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Let observation with extensive viewSurvey mankind, from China to Peru.
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When you're looking at small languages, the population of speakers is so small that there might not be people with the expertise in science or agronomy to write optimal planting strategies for maize in the local language.
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Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind.
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If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results.
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I have some good books of Bach keyboard music transcribed for guitar, and there's always a nylon-string guitar hanging on the wall in my house and a bunch of classical guitar books to grab. I kind of do that just for fun.
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I never trusted good-looking boys.
