Frances McDormand Quotes
Even though I'm an actor, I've gone to productions where there has been someone whose work is known in film, and you can't take your eyes off them. It unbalances the production. Whether they're good or not, it doesn't matter.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
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I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
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To this day, the only argument against Obama that critics can seem to come up with involves admitting he's better than them - though they certainly season it with some racism. You know, he's that lucky black man who actually appeals to the populace. He's that elitist who got himself off food stamps and into Harvard.
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Our system allows you to respond to the information that is important to you. It allows you to sense and be attuned to more streams of information in parallel.
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In the 1950s, when I was hanging around Sullivan's Gym and the Gramercy Gym, there were fixed fights. Mob guys like Frankie Carbo and Blinky Palermo had taken over the sport; one lightweight champion loaned his title to others at least twice; the welterweight division was a slag heap.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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I just try to let myself really focus on the work that's ahead of me and what my job is and how I bring something to life.
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Even though I'm an actor, I've gone to productions where there has been someone whose work is known in film, and you can't take your eyes off them. It unbalances the production. Whether they're good or not, it doesn't matter.
