Michael Shannon Quotes
Everybodys constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.
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Human emotion is more interesting than anything. Everything that is so overtly sexual is not real. Real emotion is sexy. It's vulnerable and raw.
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I don't work at being ordinary.
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The key to beauty is always to be looking at someone who loves you, really.
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Clear therefore thy head, and rally, and manage thy thoughts rightly, and thou wilt save time, and see and do thy business well; for thy judgment will be distinct, thy mind free, and the faculties strong and regular.
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I try to just take in every moment of being alive.
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Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
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I didn't marry. I didn't have children. I followed the food supply for jobs. I kept writing at night. And that kept me moving. It kept my life disruptive. It broke up many relationships. Was it worth it? Yes.
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I was one of those kids who always thought that we should know how the world works around us
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Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.
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God's DNA is the universe.
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If we live in a world where information drives what we do, the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses that information has power.
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All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA, and creation is the essence of entrepreneurship.
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Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.
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If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
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Underwear. It's like a god damned leash. It also constantly reminds me of how funny I look naked.
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I would recommend that any writer get off their ass at least once and just try it. Directing is a completely different set of muscles. It also affects your writing because, once you start directing, you tend to write your scripts with directing in mind.
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She has her own glamour, Willy lad. All poets do, all the bards and artists, all the musicians who truly take the music into their own hearts. They all straddle the border of Faerie, and they see into both worlds. Not dependably into either, perhaps, but that uncertainty keeps them honest and at a distance.
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Everybodys constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than others.
