Michael Shannon Quotes
It is surprising that people are snapping photos and stuff and then putting them on the internet. For me, it is like, "Why would you want to do that?" It would be like knowing what your Christmas presents were before Christmas morning.
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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I used to have the 'Best Of Eddie Murphy' VHS tape that I wore out completely, watching it over and over again. His 'Buckwheat Sings' is, to this day, one of my all-time favorite sketches on the show. I also loved the one where he plays the Tooth Fairy.
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No two wars are identical.
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As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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I am Afrikaans. It wasn't ever something that I thought about.
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You have to get out of your comfort zone in order to grow. And as an actor, you don't become Meryl Streep by doing the same type of comedy. You get there by being challenged. And unfortunately, there's a lack of roles for women of color, so you actually have to be the engineer creating some of those roles.
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On Quora, you're not answering questions because you want to get points or because you have nothing else to do.
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Men are virtuous because the women are; women are virtuous from necessity.
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What I find is that when young people find a brand they relate to, that they feel speaks to them, they want it in every format they can get.
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One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors.
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They know, the courts know, the people know that they have no way of changing the results as it affects them.
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My family is the most important thing to me.
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A successful argument for a government manufacturing policy has to go beyond the feeling that it's better to produce 'real things' than services. American consumers value health care and haircuts as much as washing machines and hair dryers.
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No, I don't think my presence will cause an increase in black attendance at Cleveland.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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When I named it 'Girl Problems,' I knew I would be inviting some interesting questions and some funny questions, but that was the cool part about it - I wanted that.
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And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.
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I often shoot with scissors in my eyes.
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I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942.
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It is surprising that people are snapping photos and stuff and then putting them on the internet. For me, it is like, "Why would you want to do that?" It would be like knowing what your Christmas presents were before Christmas morning.
