Frances McDormand Quotes
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I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
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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.
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I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
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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.'
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I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
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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.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game... I still love it to this day.
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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.
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Los Angeles can be a really sad city.
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I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.
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I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.
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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.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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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.
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Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.
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I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
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In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
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Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
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I never had this ego where I must write everything. I'm not Bob Dylan.
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The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
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You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.
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I don't want to stir up a can of worms.
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I want to be revered. I want to be an elder; I want to be an elderess.
