Michael Shannon Quotes
That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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My character in 'True Grit' would set these goals for herself that seemed near impossible, but to her they were possible. She was never going to believe anything else other than that.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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I have a mental coach in Korea, and I talk to her every week before the tournament, during the tournament and try to talk to her and try to get a little bit of the pressure off.
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And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
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Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward.
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The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
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My parents aren't crazy conservative. They're actually pretty open-minded. But my grandparents are, and where I'm from, East Texas, is the Bible Belt.
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Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
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When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.
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Each and every time I went in for IVF treatments, I knew there was a bipartisan group of Congresswomen praying for me, and I was honored that the same group was there at my baby shower.
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The writer works in a lonely way.
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I'm old enough to remember when the polio vaccine was still new. Also, it hadn't been that long since most people who caught pneumonia died from it. These medical breakthroughs were practically miracles.
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I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is kind of spare on the prairie. And so I'm just used to writing in that way. 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' was that way. And most of my fiction is. I like writing small pieces. Somehow it just suits me.
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I had given up on acting because I would go for auditions every day, but nothing would happen.
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I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers all around me. Either they think I'm a pedophile or a deadbeat dad. That's what I get for being a single dad - suspicious looks at the playground.
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Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.
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My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn't achieve the things she wanted to.
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That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.
