Michael Shannon Quotes

When I'm working, I don't wake up and say, 'OK, time to go be intense.' I just look at whatever scenes we're working on that day and break them down - just real intense everyday work.

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• There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Picture
  • Thought
  • End

• I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Baby
  • Brothers
  • Communicators

• My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Nature
  • Best
  • Language

• A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Goal

• The true character of ministry is a servants heart.

  

  Harold Warner
  • Heart
  • Character
  • True

• I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Doing
  • Television
  • Excited

• The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Desire
  • Destruction
  • Risks

• I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Experience
  • City
  • New York

• The scariest thing about receiving praise at a young age is the fear of burning out or losing it, or proving people right that you were just a novelty. Obviously, I can see mistakes in things that I've done or said and can see flaws in things I've made, but that's just part of growing.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Done
  • Age

• Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Work
  • Why
  • Win

• Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Life
  • Universe
  • Comfort

• I have a hyper personality.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Personality
  • Hyper

• My goodness, my hair's been talked about by a million people, you know? It sort of goes with the territory.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Know
  • Hair

• My room used to be full of Michael Jackson posters.

  

  Zendaya
  • Used
  • Room
  • Full

• Most men of business think 'Anyhow this system will probably last my time. It has gone on a long time, and is likely to go on still.'

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• A day out from the bay of Saardos, Drokler honored the brass Rorn god in the prow with a pound of incense.The blank god mask stared back at them through the pall of sweet blue smoke....It gazed in myopic stillness out over the long shock of the waves, ignoring their words, their presence, their costly offering.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • God
  • Long
  • Words

• I think most people don't like others who, without a voice of their own, emulate the other. I certainly don't want anybody just to pick up my thoughts and hand them back to me.

  

  Marguerite Young
  • People
  • Up
  • Hand

• Jesus alone cleanses from sin; He only can forgive our transgressions.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Alone
  • Jesus

• Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Good

• I will say that anyone who supports Scottish independence should go to Athens. Because nothing works. It is a disaster. It is a ruined, dirty place where people do not have money or future prospects. The day one after independence, Scotland would be worse.

  

  Philip Kerr
  • People
  • Money
  • Future

• I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

  

  Anne Stevenson
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Family

• If I get tickled in a certain way, I actually lose the ability to stand. I don't mean to, but something happens to my knees, and I fall on the ground.

  

  Kelli O'Hara
  • Fall

• When I was in Pulp, I actively did more TV stuff because that was during the Great Britpop Wars, and it seemed important to prove that indie people could speak. That war doesn't exist anymore.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
  • People
  • Great
  • Important

• When I'm working, I don't wake up and say, 'OK, time to go be intense.' I just look at whatever scenes we're working on that day and break them down - just real intense everyday work.

  

  Michael Shannon
  • Real
  • Everyday