Michael Shannon Quotes

If you give me enough time, enough leash, I can become pretty reasonable.

Michael Shannon

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• A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Enough
  • Guitar
  • Piano

• Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Know
  • Me
  • Wants

• I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Capable

• I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Real
  • Feel
  • Very

• We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Music
  • Like
  • Used

• I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Character
  • Care

• People want someone focused on getting the job done, not political talking points but rather solving problems.

  

  Gary Peters
  • People
  • Done
  • Job

• If you are ready to put a product or service on the market, look at that product or service and see how you can test it inexpensively. Keep in mind, you'll only need one; you don't need 1,000 to get the answer.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Mind
  • Service
  • Test

• Here's an idea: Spend two or three hours a day at least five days a week in front of a bookstore wearing a sandwich board with your bookcover on it while you chase and chat with anyone you can corral and who is willing to talk to you.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Day
  • Week
  • Three

• I've lived in New York for thirty years now, but I'm a proud Pittsburgher, and home is home. My family's still in Pittsburgh.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Family
  • Home
  • Proud

• Under oak, ash and thorn My soul was born. Under thorn, oak and ash My body bent to the lash.

  

  Elinor Wylie
  • Soul

• Tenderness has created the first 'social order' - that of the mother with her offspring. Through motherliness, woman later makes her great contributions to civilization.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Great
  • Mother

• I'm actually improving.

  

  Jenn Suhr

• We want to be a studio that makes a whole bunch of stuff we believe in, in all ranges of scale and time and length, and own as much as that IP ourselves and generate as much of that IP ourselves as possible.

  

  Freddie Wong
  • Time
  • Believe

• I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.

  

  Brooke Shields
  • Live
  • Daughter

• Took us a great amount of strength to get them into the world, and for them to be in the world. I think that their little spirits, you know, just said, well, we're going to be there. So it makes it very special because of it.

  

  Cheryl Tiegs
  • World
  • Great

• I am a big proponent of adopting dogs through shelters and rescue operations. Having dogs in the office might not be right for everyone, but it has certainly worked well for me. My advice to other offices, on the Hill and off, would be to try it out.

  

  Linda Sanchez
  • Advice

• Directing is genderless. The only thing... I love men. I'm not being mean to them, but they can't hear you. I don't have a husband, and so I'm not really attuned to it, but I didn't know that they could not really hear you. Like, I'm talking, and they just walk away.

  

  Lori Petty
  • Men
  • Husband

• Hold an image of the life you want, and that image will become fact.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Life
  • Want
  • Image

• A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Money
  • Giving

• We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Government
  • Struggle

• When people ask me if I have a hobby, a lot of times my answer is that I like to surf in warm water. I like to ski, if I have the opportunity. But really, I like to go to my studio and write music that I want to write, where there's no pressure to come up with a hit single.

  

  Scott Weiland Stone Temple Pilots
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Single

• People just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.

  

  Cass McCombs
  • People
  • Talking
  • Interested

• If you give me enough time, enough leash, I can become pretty reasonable.

  

  Michael Shannon
  • Giving
  • Enough