Michael Shannon Quotes
What should really be happening is a revolution. The system should be torn apart by the people and banks shouldn't be allowed to do what they do, and giant corporations shouldn't be allowed to run the world to the ground the way they're doing. But that's not happening for whatever reason.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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I had never heard much about Nashville before coming out here, and that's why it's so surprising, because I'm the biggest enthusiast on the city of Nashville now. I'm looking for a place out here to live.
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I've always looked the same, and every 10 years, I'm a little bit in fashion.
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Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.
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You want somebody who's capable of being diverse in the characters they play, and you want a big name that's going to bring attention to the filmmakers and to the project.
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My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.
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I am very concerned that federal and state air quality programs do not consider public health in regulating certain classes of industrial air emissions.
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My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband.
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A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.
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One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.
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What does it matter if, by following my heart, I also fulfill someone else's plan?
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I walked into a gunfight with a knife to kill you, and cut you so fast when your blood spilled it was still blue.
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I do think that my generation is really smart and wants to have political conversations, and so I hope that we can continue spreading our ideas and being able to change how our systems work. So, I guess being an all-American to me is being someone who questions things.
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I just do my job; I'm out there to make plays and play football.
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Some men like a dull life - they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it - it's often catching.
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We were very rich culturally. One Sunday each month, we would do this thing called Chamber Pots at somebody's house. A classical music group would come over and we'd have dinner. There were thirty people - parents and kids - and we'd sit on the floor and listen to this beautiful music.
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What should really be happening is a revolution. The system should be torn apart by the people and banks shouldn't be allowed to do what they do, and giant corporations shouldn't be allowed to run the world to the ground the way they're doing. But that's not happening for whatever reason.
