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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City.
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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.
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Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win.
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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.
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I have a hyper personality.
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My goodness, my hair's been talked about by a million people, you know? It sort of goes with the territory.
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My room used to be full of Michael Jackson posters.
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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.'
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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.
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Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.
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My mother has become my daughter and I've become her guardian.
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The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.
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One should never make one's debut in a scandal. One should reserve that to give interest to one's old age.
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I also find doing the mundane, everyday things in life has a calming, creative influence on me. Some of my best ideas come when I'm vacuuming or waiting in lines.
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'In Country' is about a high school girl's quest for knowledge about her father, who died in Vietnam just before she was born.
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The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
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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.
