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" Growing up a preacher's kid wasn't the easiest thing. Everybody's always watching you to see how you'll behave - or misbehave. "
Frances McDormand
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" I was very good until I left home to go to a little college in West Virginia, and then I started to break some rules. "
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" The last scene in 'Moonlight,' that's one of the most extraordinary things I've ever seen on film in my lifetime. You see two men showing such tenderness towards each other. And it's bold; it's deep. It's complex. It's profound. "
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" If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks. "
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" My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life. "
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" There is simply too much of my life that is involved in my work that I couldn't replicate in any other way. "
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" A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers. "
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" I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper. "
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" I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania. "
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" Even though I'm an actor, I've gone to productions where there has been someone whose work is known in film, and you can't take your eyes off them. It unbalances the production. Whether they're good or not, it doesn't matter. "
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" I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness. "
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" I have friends who are movie stars, and I think it's just as hard a job as being a working actor. But it's a different job, and it's not the one I want. "
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" I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven. "
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