Michael Shannon Quotes
I've known a lot of very religious people. My mother is very religious, but she was also very - is very private about it. She - when I was growing up, she never went to church. She just prayed and read her Bible and kept it to herself. So I'm not from a background of flamboyant believers. It's much more a personal issue.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
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See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.
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You have to understand that I'm not just some guy who voices characters in animated movie and TV shows.
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Conservation of energy also protects our environment.
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By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire.
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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.
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This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco.
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The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.
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The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.
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Millennials - who will soon be a full one-third of American adults - may be especially ready to become engaged in politics with a candidate who wants to give them a government that will leave them alone and get its finances in order so that they don't inherit an economic collapse.
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To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment.
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We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show;
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I've been writing and making my own music for a long time.
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Not too many people can afford for the wife to stay home and raise the kids.
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To become successful and outstanding at something, we don't have to come up with something new; we need only find ways of doing it better.
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You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.
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What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.
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My mother was suffering every day of her life, and what right did I have to be happy if she was suffering? So whenever I got happy about something, I felt the need to cut it off, and the only way to cut it off was to pray. 'Forgive me Lord.' For what, I didn't know.
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I've known a lot of very religious people. My mother is very religious, but she was also very - is very private about it. She - when I was growing up, she never went to church. She just prayed and read her Bible and kept it to herself. So I'm not from a background of flamboyant believers. It's much more a personal issue.
