Michael Shannon Quotes
I started acting because I was miserable and crazy and wanted to be someone else, to run around and scream in front of people without getting in trouble.
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
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Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.
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Conversations about money certainly are not sexy, but they should give each of you some clarity and enable you to enter into your marriage with a better understanding of each other and what is important. Work and home responsibilities, joint or separate accounts, budgets, etc. are all subjects which should be discussed.
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I wish all high schools could offer students the outside activities that were available at the old Harrison High on Chicago's West Side in the late '20s. They enabled me to become part of a school newspaper, drama group, football team and student government.
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I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.
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Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
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The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
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If you're always worried about being on your phone, then you really are missing out on everything that's happening in front of you.
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I’m not a particularly ideological person. There’s things, some values I feel passionately about.
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I'm not what you might call sexy, but I'm romantic. Let's put it that way.
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Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.
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As members of Congress, we may disagree with the administration's position on foreign policy matters, but the fact remains: the Executive Branch is tasked with handling diplomatic matters.
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I guess there might come a point when I will want to live an anonymous life. I'm only at the start of my career, so I'm sure that moment will come, but I know how blessed I am to have this platform on which to speak and influence.
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There's something undeniably oxymoronic about a 'successful' rock n' roll band. Who wants to hear a bunch of success stories whining about their success? More importantly, what can be the drive behind a band, what can they have to rage against when they are successes? That's a dichotomy every successful band wrestles with.
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Iraqis must fight for their own country.
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I've always had to train harder than others to get the oxygen to my muscles because of my lung capacity. I have to push myself past the point of being comfortable.
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The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over.
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Mr. Do-Nothing Obama will say today, 'Lets think of all the poor dead people' - or 'let's honor all the dead' instead of fighting for the living. He has been really useless in terms of both HIV and gay issues. He is simply not a leader. He may be president, but he is not a leader.
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I'm always in awe of people who are artists in their fields - people who understand that simply by taking ideas and translating them into reality, they've created value in the world.
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That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory.
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Be phenomenal or be forgotten!
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I started acting because I was miserable and crazy and wanted to be someone else, to run around and scream in front of people without getting in trouble.
