Frances McDormand Quotes
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Nature is under control but not disturbed.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
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I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!
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Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer questions, because I'm excited about it. It's like making new friends.
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
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The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.
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Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.
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But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.
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I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.
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Love is a state of being.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.
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If you want to be told what to think, well, I'm not in that business.
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The history of human civilisation is a history of mutual borrowings.
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Human reasoning can never answer the mysteries of our lives.
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American nuclear reactors are well into middle age. The median age of an operating reactor in the U.S. is 34 years, placing start-up in midst of the Carter administration.
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There's this unspoken history that exists between any mother and daughter, no matter how deep and loving the bond is, twenty-five years of being raised by someone, there's a kind of deep history which means that there are shortcuts to getting on each other's nerves.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
