Frances McDormand Quotes
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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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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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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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On the day he had colonic irrigation: 'I feel I lost my virginity that day in so many ways.'
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The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing; and therefore he is like a part in relation to the whole.
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When it's good it's great, it's really great.
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When I look at each of my brothers, I see two things. First, I see the next place I want to leave a rosy welt. Second, I see a good man who will always be there, no matter how hard life gets for me or him. Then, I get out of the way because I realize he's coming at me with a wet dish towel.
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I never trusted good-looking boys.
