Frances McDormand Quotes

Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship.

Frances McDormand

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ScholarshipYale

I can't wait 'til the world embraces Chicago - not only for our talent, but just to visit our city and not be so scared to come to it and not be subjected to what people's perception is of it.

Jeremih

TalentPeopleCityWaitWorldJust

When you make a piece, one of the interesting things is hearing what other people think about it.

Max Richter

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Without the Sisters of St. Joseph, I might not be standing here.

John Lewis

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The prevailing view was that girls were outside of school because of the resistance of families to their education. But when I visited a local village, what everyone told me - the chiefs, the parents, the children - was that girls weren't in school because it was the boys that had a better chance of getting paid work in the future.

Ann Cotton

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Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.

Ann Patchett

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Youth makes you brave, I suppose. When you're young, you make a fool of yourself all the time. Because of all the rejections and the criticism you get all the time, there has to be a drive there.

Shirley Henderson

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I do remember my first purchase: the Partridge Family's 'Greatest Hits.' I got it for $3.99 at a failed chain of pre-Wal-Mart-type stores called Jamesway. God, I'm old.

Trent Reznor

FamilyGodRememberOldFirstGot

Firstly, we have personnel records of persons we hired, persons we fired, reasons we fired them and so forth. These records have nothing to do with the assassination of the president and, therefore, ought to remain in the files.

Louis Stokes

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If you take control over those things you can, you are better able to negotiate the unexpected.

Judy Sheindlin

ControlBetterUnexpectedYouOver

When I'm 19, I'll still be living with my mom, but I'm going to be doing music and acting. I can picture it really vividly.

JoJo Siwa

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My fans are called 'Mayniacs'. They enjoy screaming and chasing me and taking pictures.

Conor Maynard

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You're not going to talk to your vacuum cleaning robot: in fact, you may never see your vacuum cleaning robot because, ideally, you come home every day and your floors are freshly vacuumed.

Colin Angle

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