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Frances McDormand Quotes

I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children.

Frances McDormand

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: June 23, 1957

Topics

Children People Wait Believe America

You're supposed to create new standards. The more you play songs by your peers, they become standards, you know? Miles Davis played 'Gingerbread Boy' 'cos he and Jimmy Heath were cool, you know? That's how the culture goes.

Culture Cool You Create Play Know

One of the pillars of backward thinking in America is the idea that you can have jobs or you can have clean air and water, but you can't have both. That myth has been busted a thousand times, but still it lives on.

Water Thinking America You Clean

When I approached 'Animal Man,' I approached it as if it wasn't a reboot, as if the Grant Morrison and Jamie Delano stuff happened. I mean, as much as I could make it all make sense, it still all happened.

Man Animal Mean Sense Still Stuff

'The Voice' has lots of singers who fit the 'Idol' mold of young, innocent ingenues with psycho stage moms. But it also has long-suffering adult pros, with a whiff of thirtysomething despair in their voices. That adds an edge of realness.

Voice Edge Innocent Young Stage

Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.

Mind Us Hearts Set Our Shall

Writers are always sort of threatening to direct, and sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't.

Sometimes Always Threatening Direct

Last time I was in London, I visited Number 5, Bruton Street, which is the address I gave to Violet Bridgerton, the matriarch of the Bridgerton clan in my novels. It was a bit disconcerting to learn that it's actually a pub.

Time Learn Street London Last Time

When you get a groove going, time flies.

Time Time Flies You Going Get Flies

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

Religion Society Mask Trouble True

When I use violence in a movie, it's just to express the power, the impact of it.

Denis Villeneuve

Power Impact Violence Just Movie

The idea of making a film - a film that I had certainly never seen before - about the slave experience was a huge responsibility. It's a project that requires a wider understanding of the geopolitical nature of the slave trade, of historical and modern-day racism.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Nature Responsibility Experience Film

The bottom line is there are lots of problems that were not created by government. The biggest one is loss of middle class incomes, loss of good-paying jobs which was created by technology and globalization. Above all, when you can move a job to China or India, it reduces wages.

Technology Job Government Problems

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