Frances McDormand Quotes

What's wrong with Hell's Kitchen? You don't change a neighborhood by changing its name. You change it by building a school.

Frances McDormand

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ChangeSchoolBuildingKitchenName

I can't tell you how disheartening it is to be told to go home because the director is filming you from behind and you don't have the right kind of body. As an actress, to be told that... Well, it's just a very odd set of circumstances.

Andrea Riseborough

HomeYouBodyGoKindCircumstances

There is no worse place for an intelligence service like CIA to be than on Page 1, above the fold in your daily newspaper.

Michael Hayden

DailyServiceIntelligencePlace

The issues surrounding illegal immigration are wide-ranging and complex, but there is no question about the need to secure our borders.

Roger Wicker

ImmigrationIllegal ImmigrationNeed

Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'

Mikhail Baryshnikov

LifeMyselfNeverStagePoker

What I want to do is to make sure that we fully repeal Obamacare. This will be one of the largest spending initiatives we will ever see in our country. And also, it will take away choice from the American people.

Michele Bachmann

PeopleAmericanChoiceCountryWant

I was a chief justice. And before that, I was a district court judge, handled major felonies, including capital murder cases; and I handled major civil litigation.

Louie Gohmert

JusticeJudgeCapitalChiefCourt

When Shonda Rhimes calls, you feel like you get called into the principal's office a little bit, and you think, 'Maybe I better take that call.'

Jason Winston George

ThinkBetterFeelYouPrincipalGet

I definitely try to mix humour into anything I do, even if it is into a drama.

Jorge Garcia

DramaTryHumourAnythingEvenMix

I was at a point of asking God whether acting was what He really wanted me to do. Oprah Winfrey came to one of my workshops, and a couple of months later, she reached out to Uncle BeBe, who co-wrote 'Born For This.' Oprah told him she was interested in me for the role of Charity on 'Greenleaf' and asked him to help her contact me.

Deborah Joy Winans

GodMeCharityHelpUncleActing

My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities, that then gave you the liberty to do other things.

Clarence Thomas

AttitudeFreedomManInterestingYou

The new discovery of a 3.3 billion barrel oil deposit off Norway's coast cements that nation's claim to being Europe's second largest oil producer.

Bob Beauprez

DiscoveryNewOilNationEuropeOff

Pain doesn't have a face and pain doesn't have a certain way of adjusting. Pain is universal.

Aunjanue Ellis

PainFaceWayUniversalCertain

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