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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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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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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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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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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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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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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All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.
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It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up.
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Be the person you want others to perceive you as. So if you want others to see you as a leader, then act like one. Don't expect things to be handed to you. You have to work for it.
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When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors.
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My products and magic are free, but on the commercial side of what I do, the big tech companies are impressed with somebody like me who can emotionalize a piece of technology.
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I do feel a lot more comfortable when my dog is with me.
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The director Sofia Coppola's new comic melodrama, 'Lost in Translation,' thoroughly and touchingly connects the dots between three standards of yearning in movies: David Lean's 'Brief Encounter,' Richard Linklater's 'Before Sunrise' and Wong Kar-wai's 'In the Mood for Love.'
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I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.
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It's been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses were our most reliable mode of transportation.
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Belfast during the Troubles looked like a different world.
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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.
