Michael Shannon Quotes
Plenty of people are onto the emptiness but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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My joke is that three black people watch 'The Daily Show' at any given time. So if I'm watching it, that counts, and there's only two left. It's a silly joke, but you know, different types of comedy reach different cultures.
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You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.
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While I am not saying Facebook cannot be a wonderland for marketers, I am still waiting to see the proof of it, and so should every reporter.
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What I support is moving Medicaid to block grants so that the states can drive that process.
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A lot of times, I'll get roles where it's the dumb blonde or the cheerleader, and I just have no interest - and it can be a great movie, it really can - or the mean girl; those things don't intrigue me much.
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Everybody's fast and strong, but to go out there and throw pass-rush moves or be able to do something different on the run to get them off balance. Anybody can run into somebody, but if you can shake them a little bit at the line, that's what's helped me out as a player.
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When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.
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We are not making a capital investment into GM as the first element or condition.
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Careers are like roller coasters. You go up, you go down, and you spin yourself around.
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Pascal is called the founder of modern probability theory. He earns this title not only for the familiar correspondence with Fermat on games of chance, but also for his conception of decision theory, and because he was an instrument in the demolition of probabilism, a doctrine which would have precluded rational probability theory.
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I'll tell you right nowAny trick in the book now, baby, all that I can find...
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How many artists subscribe to the notion that creative success depends on input from the fickle muse or her modern avatar, mental illness? Probably very few.
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I've got everything I need: a nice piece of land with hawks and owls and incredible sunsets, and the good will of my neighbors.
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Anybody who says they don't like fighting in the NHL have to be out of their minds.
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A lot of members of Congress are isolated. They tend to be affluent. They tend to have a lot of people doing things for them. So sometimes they don't understand what their constituents are feeling.
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When I was in middle school, we had moved from Texas to Orange County. I didn't fit in, and it was pretty lonely.
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I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.
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A friend of mine rang the box office to collect a ticket I'd reserved for her, and the girl said, 'Who's Lesley Manville?'
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The best you can hope for is a great collaborator.
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Plenty of people are onto the emptiness but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.
