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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. "

Frances McDormand

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Acting

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Thought

Family

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

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Yale

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