Michael Shannon Quotes
A lot of times people will send me stuff. They will find something and they will send it to me and then I will take a look at it. Every once in awhile I will go on IMDB for 10 or 15 minutes and look around. But I am not a huge gearhead. I don't even have my own computer. I use my girlfriends.Michael Shannon
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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
Lascelles Abercrombie -
The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
Rachel Cusk -
When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
Jack Nicholson -
There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
Tadao Ando -
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
Otto von Bismarck
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
Park Chan-wook -
At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
Carl Spitteler -
She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.
Iggy Pop -
I think that our comfort is in our history.
Walter Cronkite -
If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
Irving Babbitt -
It's never easy to adapt a book, especially as the author, because it's as if you're chopping off appendages. It really feels painful to decide what has to go.
W. Bruce Cameron
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Reactionaries often describe both Marx and Lenin as theorists, without taking into consideration that their utopias inspired Russia and China - the two countries called upon to lead a new world which will allow for human survival if imperialism does not first unleash a criminal, exterminating war.
Fidel Castro -
Almost every character I've ever played - and sometimes this is very conscious and sometimes it's not - I need to find what they love.
J. K. Simmons -
My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer.
Garrison Keillor -
My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.
Laura Hillenbrand -
Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed the makeup so they didn't have to pay me.
Ace Frehley Kiss
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A heart beset by coronary disease will begin to recruit secondary arteries to carry oxygenated blood.
Barry Eisler -
For me, I always like to get up bright and early.
Andre Rieu -
Money's never an issue. I can go and work for a small studio theatre somewhere if it's a play I really care about, or do TV or a big commercial West End show.
Conleth Hill -
Eres un fantoche, pero en las manos de lo infinito, que tal vez son tus manos.
Antonio Porchia -
My type of humor is me not caring whether people know what I'm talking about or not.
John Hodgman -
A lot of times people will send me stuff. They will find something and they will send it to me and then I will take a look at it. Every once in awhile I will go on IMDB for 10 or 15 minutes and look around. But I am not a huge gearhead. I don't even have my own computer. I use my girlfriends.
Michael Shannon