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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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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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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I keep fit, I work out, I eat pretty damn well, I don't drink like a fish, and all of those things are tempered with a holistic mind-set that you need to damn well respect the vehicle that you're walking around in.
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It was the realisation of a lifelong ambition to be the MP for my home town. It was by no means the end of a journey, but rather the beginning of a new chapter both for me and for the people of Batley and Spen.
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Billy asked him if such men as had stole his eyes were only products of the war but the blind man said that since war itself was their very doing that could hardly be the case.
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A lot of people come up to me expecting to meet the person they have seen perform. It's not going to happen, unless my mania, my stage person, responds to them and not the real me.
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I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.
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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.
