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" Guess what? I am an ordinary person. "
Frances McDormand
I Am
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" My position has always been that the way people age and the signs that we show of aging is nature's way of tattooing. It's natural scarification, and the life you lead gives you the symbols and the emblems of your life, the road map you followed. "
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