Frances McDormand Quotes

I want to be revered. I want to be an elder; I want to be an elderess.

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• I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Fall
  • Jam
  • Eleven

• If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Day
  • Fall
  • Tree

• It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.

  

  Ed Greenwood
  • Story
  • Yourself
  • Surprise

• I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.

  

  Edith Evans
  • Imagine
  • More
  • Expectations

• I adore Eddie Kaye Thomas and Jason Biggs. Eddie was the only one who called me when they were doing 'American Reunion' and told me, 'You need to do this.'

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • American
  • Me
  • Told

• I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Dog
  • Webster

• It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Sleep

• We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Freedom
  • Security
  • Plan

• Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game... I still love it to this day.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Game
  • Excitement
  • Intensity

• Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • High
  • Education
  • Law

• Los Angeles can be a really sad city.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • City
  • Sad
  • Los Angeles

• I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.

  

  J. Anthony Lukas
  • Shirts
  • Drives
  • Jackets

• I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Myself
  • Film
  • Performance

• When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Soul
  • Black
  • Water

• In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Anger

• I've always had an interest in vampire films - not just 'Nosferatu,' but there are many others that I have enjoyed: Abel Ferrara, Coppola, Neil Jordan.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Just
  • Vampire
  • Others

• Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Great
  • Day
  • End

• I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • World
  • Long
  • Writing

• At Uniqlo, we're thinking ahead. We're thinking about how to create new, innovative products... and sell that to everyone.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Thinking
  • New
  • Ahead

• I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.

  

  Alain Prost
  • People
  • Success

• Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Business
  • Black
  • Small

• If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath.

  

  Pamela Sue Martin
  • Want
  • Me
  • Truck

• The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Want
  • You
  • Thought

• I want to be revered. I want to be an elder; I want to be an elderess.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Want
  • Revered
  • Elder