Michael Shannon Quotes
I want to focus on each scene. I'm a real perfectionist, and I don't want to feel like I didn't consider every possible variation of a scene. I come from a theater background, so I'm used to a lot of repetition, and I'm used to really attacking something over and over and over again.
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There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.
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I am not keen just for the position; I'm keen to help and to serve. If I can really avoid any bad things on my country, I will not hesitate one second.
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I remember there being a period of time when I had a baby, and I was so sleep-deprived that I'd get into having no filter, and that was not good.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.
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If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate, they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage. And they should do so without apologizing.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
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I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people.
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I do wear weaves and I do wear wigs.
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Every actor fears unemployment – even me.
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I lived in Paris for four years, so I am obsessed with pastries. Croissants, pain au chocolat, cakes, macarons, all of that!
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A remarkable feature of Islam is that it gives dignity even to the humblest illiterate peasants. It gives them a certain human dignity which one doesn't find in other societies.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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I like to go on the court and have a little bit of information about my opponent.
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The function of the university is not simply to teach bread-winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.
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But I'm interested in the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia. I hear there are some of the worst Matisses there. I like seeing bad art by good artists. It's inspiring. I'm able to identify with them. It makes them real.
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I want to focus on each scene. I'm a real perfectionist, and I don't want to feel like I didn't consider every possible variation of a scene. I come from a theater background, so I'm used to a lot of repetition, and I'm used to really attacking something over and over and over again.
