Michael Shanks Quotes
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The African Union has to act in order to put an end to armed conflicts that undermine the continent, to fight against the devastation caused by AIDS and other contagious diseases, to promote sustainable development of its member states.
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There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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I've learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I think I should write a book about it!
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I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.
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Shallowness and ignorance have been our lot in the mass consumer societies we inhabit, where we were too distracted to act politically, apart from periodically deputing political elites to take life-and-death decisions on our behalf.
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I'm an honorary old Jewish lady of the West Village.
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There's a Place in the Sun, where there's hope for everyone.
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People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite wrong. As Pascal says, faith is a gift of God. It is different from the proof of it. It is the kind of faith God himself places in the heart, of which the proof is often the instrument... He says of it, too, that it is the heart which is aware of God, and not reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not be reason.
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There are loads of amazing actors in the UK and only 2% of them are in work, which is crazy.
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When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.
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In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.
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A story has the opportunity to enlighten us, because as we connect the extraordinary moments on film with the ordinary moments of our lives, we ask ourselves, "What am I going to do the next time I'm scared? What would it be like to say goodbye to my family for the last time?"
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I slept well that night because someone had been kind to me.
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I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
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You think you're funny! You think you're funny Cena, huh? The only pose you're going to be doing tonight is lying on your back with me on top!
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If you're not living on the edge then you're taking up a little too much space.
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Acting is embarrassing.
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I find directing more satisfying.
