Frances McDormand Quotes
My father was a minister, and it was more my mother that had the responsibility of making sure the family put out an outward of appearance of living what he was preaching. She was the PR.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
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I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.
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My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
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See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.
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It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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I became allergic to virtually all fruits and vegetables, and my weight tumbled. I am 5ft. 10in. but dropped to just 8 st. 7lbs.
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You can't break Russian people, you know? 'Cos we're made in cold snow. We're very resistant.
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When we shift our perception, our experience changes.
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The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from your family. Your family can seem normal because it is your family and all you know, but in fact it is a mess.
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My father was a minister, and it was more my mother that had the responsibility of making sure the family put out an outward of appearance of living what he was preaching. She was the PR.
