Frances McDormand Quotes

I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.

Frances McDormand

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I don't mind doing scripted material. It's actually kind of a relief, because improvising is a little bit like screenwriting on your feet.

John C. Reilly

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You'll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

Joel Osteen

YourselfYouRiseWayNeverSee

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

John Drinkwater

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I don't think the English like me. I sold a colossal best seller in America, and they never really forgave me.

John Fowles

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Ironing is a great diversion from the reality you don't want to face.

Melissa McBride

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It gives me a chance to explore so many dynamics - that's what we actors dream of doing. So, I love playing the villain.

Angela Robinson

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Everyone has to try to give back as much as possible because I think in all sports it helps kids to have role models or people to look up to. Someone like Jess Ennis, I know a lot of young girls have started to get into athletics stuff because of her, because of her success.

Andy Murray

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Basically, what Economic Hit Men are trained to do is to build up the American empire. To create situations where as many resources as possible flow into this country, to our corporations, and our government, and in fact we've been very successful.

John Perkins

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I am all at once in awe and in confusion at some of the folks I encounter during fashion week, consistently causing me to mutter to myself or whoever's in earshot, 'Is that really necessary?'

Amanda Seales

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I've been tremendously lucky. I went through things that turned out wrong, and I got myself out of them.

Stephane Hessel

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Perhaps unscripted reality shows and written fiction have already blurred together into some new amalgamated mush, just as the line between commercials and programs has been trashed.

Tom Shales

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I ended up becoming so self-conscious that my songs stopped being about my life and started being about what people thought of my music. And that was really bad.

Liz Phair

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