Shirley Ann Manson Quotes
In terms of fitting in, you know, I don't have a lot of armor up. I'm a raw nerve and it's really uncomfortable for a lot of people.
Quotes to Explore
-
I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
-
The important thing to remember is war does not progress linearly. The future course of events is going to be very difficult to predict with a high degree of precision.
-
The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.
-
It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
-
Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
-
I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
-
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
-
All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
-
The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.
-
The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
-
I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
-
I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.
-
To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
-
Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
-
Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.
-
My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
-
A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
-
To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
-
I have a scar on my right arm from my ex-husband. He was cooking and he had a hot pot and he turned around and went right into my arm.
-
But this show reminds me that there are other aspects to me besides the fact that I'm a funny chick.
-
There is an unwritten social rule now that you can harangue the wealthy to give money away, but you mustn't ask how the money was made. There are no galas celebrating the money people knew better than to seek. Charity begins after profit.
-
I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.
-
A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part with it, in death, or even imaginatively, in art.
-
In terms of fitting in, you know, I don't have a lot of armor up. I'm a raw nerve and it's really uncomfortable for a lot of people.
