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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Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started 'Wine Library TV.' They thought I was dumbing down wine, but I always knew I was one of the biggest producers of new wine drinkers in the world, and people are realizing it now.
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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 have to have a darkness...for the dawn to come. You have to have experienced difficulties and challenges to fully appreciate and be grateful for success.
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Dancing insists we take up space, and though it has no set direction, we go there together. Dance is dangerous, joyous, sexual, holy, disruptive, and contagious and it breaks the rules. It can happen anywhere, at anytime, with anyone and everyone, and it's free. Dance joins us and pushes us to go further and that is why it's at the center of ONE BILLION RISING.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.
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I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.
