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Frances McDormand

"I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one."

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"I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one."

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"Always keep in mind how you can best use this time that you call life."

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"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."

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"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

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"Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it."

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"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."

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"Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it."

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"Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent."

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"Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time."

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"I believe I was ahead of my time."

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"The past always wishes to play its part in the unfolding drama of life."

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"It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre."
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"Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again."
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"There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power."
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"I never trusted good-looking boys."
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"The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it."
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"I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be."
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"I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star."
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"It's much easier to play supporting roles because that's what I do in my life: I support my son."
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"Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down."
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"The only power you have is the word no."
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