Michael Shannon Quotes
I get pretty attached to the majority of the characters I play. I can't help myself.
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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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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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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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There is a terrible conservatism, like a cancer, right in the heartlands of music-making, a tremendous resistance to change, an absolute horror of the idea that more people might connect with music. That infuriates me more than I can say.
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Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.
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The essence of my work, and of me, is the softer side of a strong woman, and that goes into a number of different roles.
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Yoga has helped me to see death as more of a gift than a loss, and that has been my experience so far.
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The guys on 'Game of Thrones' trust me implicitly to take care of the action stuff. I don't mess with their drama, but they allow me to come up with ideas like 'Hey, what if the giant had a bow? And what if he shot some guy off the wall?' With 'Constantine,' too, they really trust me to scare the audience.
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I just really am trying, trying, all the time. But I like to be scared. I love to suddenly feel out of control.
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I didn't fancy any of my teachers.
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I get pretty attached to the majority of the characters I play. I can't help myself.
