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" I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again. "

Frances McDormand

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" Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship. "

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Frances McDormand

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Work

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Frances McDormand

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" My father was a minister, and it was more my mother that had the responsibility of making sure the family put out an outward of appearance of living what he was preaching. She was the PR. "