Michael Shannon Quotes
It's obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.
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My father was a lawyer.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.
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The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.
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For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.
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Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.
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He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.
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I look forward to the day that a lot of the folks that you all talk about and cover on this network will begin to market products for these families and for these kids coming out of junior high school and high school all across the country.
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It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.
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If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.
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My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.
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Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.
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I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.
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There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.
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It takes two to get one in trouble.
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In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.
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Kurt Cobain, when he did his videos, you look into his eyes and he couldn't even face the camera; he was in pain and I'm angry about Kurt. This guy didn't have to die.
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You look at what happened with Chrysler, it went through that bankruptcy, and it's re-emerged in a much different fashion, privately held in some of those things, and it's really putting out a great product.
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I really want to clear my life so that I have to make as few decisions as possible about anything except how to best serve this community.
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It's obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.
