Frances McDormand Quotes
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I'm not a very technical musician at all.
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Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
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I think the most important element of a power outfit is proper fit. The one item to focus on is a suit. If it's the right fit, you could wear it with a T-shirt and still convey the positive message.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
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Take good care of our fragile planet.
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It has seemed, at times, like American carmakers think car buyers are so blindly loyal that they will keep coming back - despite the sticker shock - for crummy cars that guzzle gas, fall apart too soon, and cost too much to repair.
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I was never the mascot of the Georgia football team.
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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
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I've always thought Shawn Michaels's story is fascinating.
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One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.
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When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
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When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.
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If there's one organization in the United States that could work on its communication skills, it's the military.
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We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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I went to see Dad in hospital after he had gone through one particularly grueling operation. I walked into the room where he was recovering, and he was sitting up in a chair, wearing his shirt and tie. That was after eight hours of surgery. I found that so moving.
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There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.
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I never wanted to be a movie star.
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I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.
