Frances McDormand Quotes

What's wrong with Hell's Kitchen? You don't change a neighborhood by changing its name. You change it by building a school.

Frances McDormand

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• I've always enjoyed poor health.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Health
  • Always
  • Poor

• Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Love
  • Youth
  • To Love

• A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Children
  • School

• I went through a training camp; I worked extremely hard. I prepared for UFC 200. This was the big one. This one meant everything to me.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Me
  • Training
  • Hard

• In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Favorite
  • Grammar

• Artists are like everybody else.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Like
  • Artists
  • Everybody

• I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Science
  • Science fiction

• I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Hope
  • Girl
  • Sweet

• Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Culture
  • Drama
  • Painting

• After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • People
  • Character
  • Better

• If I could wave a magic wand, we would eliminate income tax; we would eliminate corporate tax. We would abolish the IRS, and we could replace all of it with one federal consumption tax.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Magic
  • Tax
  • Wave

• You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Love
  • Want
  • Everyday

• We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.

  

  Harold Nicolson
  • Judge
  • Others
  • Ideals

• Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Pain
  • Joy
  • Ecstasy

• The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Satisfaction
  • Only
  • Mutual

• In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • Going
  • Hungry
  • Over

• The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Life
  • Long
  • My Life

• Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Life
  • You
  • Walking

• How does a queen bee behave? However she wants to. But please don't wait for someone to hold the door open for you when your own arms work perfectly fine - do it yourself.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Work
  • She
  • Door

• I have to tell you, I'm proudest of my life off the court. There will always be great basketball players who bounce that little round ball, but my proudest moments are affecting people's lives, effecting change, being a role model in the community.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• I knew I could never be an actor as a man. It just doesn't work, you know? And so when I was doing drag, I realized I could do that kind of stuff, and then when I was transitioning, I kind of gave up on the whole thing because I didn't think that this time would ever come, you know?

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• Our songs touch people, and take them back to a time when there was no threat of terrorism, when you didn't have to lock your doors and when Mom and Dad took care of everything.

  

  George Grove
  • People
  • Time
  • Dad

• We are extremely focused on building some of the assets which are going into mid-India, semi-urban and rural, and that's our DNA. We are building a retail bank, and a lot of the deposit base is still in urban India.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Building
  • Bank
  • Retail

• What's wrong with Hell's Kitchen? You don't change a neighborhood by changing its name. You change it by building a school.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • School
  • Change
  • Building