Michael Shannon Quotes
I get pretty attached to the majority of the characters I play. I can't help myself.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.
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I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.
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I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for food.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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My family were very poor. I am one of nine siblings: two girls and seven boys. Only my brother and I play in Europe, and then three more work in Europe, and another plays in Tunisia. This family is a footballing family, but our lives have not always been good.
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I liked to be around my friends, but my dad was out there, day in and day out.
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Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
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A lot of people assume that women of a certain age who are not unattractive have no excuse for not having a perfect life. But you can have emotional baggage that is dragging you down like cement blocks tied to your feet.
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I believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.
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If you're confident, then it helps you live up to your potential, but if you believe because you went to a certain school it means you're entitled to have a particular career, you'll fall flat on your face eventually.
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If you are a professional, the speed with which you react to a potential problem separates the men from the boys.
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I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.
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There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation.
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If you're talking about nuclear physics, I have to defer to the next guy. But if you're talking about football, I don't have to take a back seat to anyone.
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If I do end up hitting leadoff here, I think it's going to be a positive. With an everyday player hitting before me, it will give me more opportunities with guys on base to drive in runs.
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Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells.
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The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.
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I get pretty attached to the majority of the characters I play. I can't help myself.
