Michael Shannon Quotes
Plenty of people are onto the emptiness but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.
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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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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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I get huge solace from chaos, especially if someone else is doing it, too, like, 'Thank God it's not just me!'
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It's easy in this world, in this business, to get caught up and get jealous of people.
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It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
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I never thought I would become amazing. I never thought I would be as great as my father. I would like to continue writing novels, and hopefully, at some point, I would like to make the switch from being 'Stephen Hawking's daughter' to 'novelist Lucy Hawking,' and that will be a fabulous day.
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I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.
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Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
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I've been watching more American TV because of all the great TV series that have come out in the last five to 10 years. I'm a 'Sopranos' fan, I'm a 'Wire' fan, I'm a 'Mad Men' fan. I'm a 'Deadwood' fan. It makes me optimistic for the future of storytelling on TV that producers are willing to take that kind of jump.
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Zealots often carry the day.
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Plenty of people are onto the emptiness but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.
