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" I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read. "

Frances McDormand

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" I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic. "

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" I'm trained in the theater, and acting, for me, is about the imaginative life I create for myself, not about basing it on something real. I think that whatever I create becomes the reality for the audience. "

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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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" 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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" We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult. "

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" The crew on 'Three Bilboards,' by the way, is one of the best I've ever worked with. And that's not hyperbole. "

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" I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania. "

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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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" KWMR is my radio station, and I intend to have a job there as I get older. That's what I'm lobbying for. They don't need me. They've got plenty of people. But let's see if I can make myself indispensable. "

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" My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life. "

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" With aging, you earn the right to be loyal to yourself. "

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" When you lose a spouse, you're a widow or widower; when you lose your parents, you're an orphan. When you lose a child, there's no word in the English language for that position, that place that you're left. "

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" I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper. "

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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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" My feminist training was that this was your goal, to be a self-sufficient woman, but that is a miscalculation. It's just not the way we work. We work in dialogue with the community. "

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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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" I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them. "

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" It's like some weird excuse for high school kids to vomit. It's not good. It's stupid. I'm sure that's not what St. Patrick's Day is supposed to be about, but who knows. "

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" I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did. "

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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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" I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it. "

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