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" What's wrong with Hell's Kitchen? You don't change a neighborhood by changing its name. You change it by building a school. "

Frances McDormand

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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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" 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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" Who can worry about a career? Have a life. "

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" I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children. "

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

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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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" If you take it as a compliment that you don't look your age, then you're really shooting yourself in the foot. "

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" My son smelled like a cinnamon bun, and that smell entered into my biological being, and it became an imperative that I keep him alive at all costs, so then there's this monster - this tiger or lion - that comes forward in you to protect them. And it doesn't stop. It doesn't matter if they become men or women. "

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" A movie set actually can be a good place to have a family atmosphere. "

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" I haven't done much press for many reasons, but mostly because it's not an interesting dialogue about work that's been done. It's turned into something else. It's become this ridiculous other thing. "

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" No actor has complete freedom. "

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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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" I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star. "

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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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" I never trusted good-looking boys. "

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" I went to my school careers counselors and said I wanted to be an actor, and they didn't know what to do. They showed me catalogues with pretty campuses and said, 'Oh, look, there's a theater building. Why don't you go there?' "

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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'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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" Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female. "

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" Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences. "

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" I portray female characters, so I have the opportunity to change the way people look at them. Even if I wasn't consciously doing that, it would happen anyway just because of how I present as a woman, or as a person. I present in a way that's not stereotypical, even if I'm playing a stereotypical role. "

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" I want to separate my professional life from my personal life. I want to live a normal life and be a normal mother. "

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

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" It's kind of a subversive act to tell a story of a woman past a certain age, to develop a four-hour movie based on a marriage and a story of two people past middle age. "

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" I'm attracted to male gestures and sexuality. "

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" If, when I leave this earth, I'm remembered for 'Fargo,' so be it. But I think old Marge Gunderson is gonna get a run for her money with Olive Kittredge. "

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" I haven't wanted to play a mother for a long time because I am one. "

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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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" That's another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face. "

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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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