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.

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• 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.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • Good
  • Work
  • Learning

• 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.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Important
  • Remember
  • War

• The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Way
  • First
  • Champion

• It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Fast
  • Languages
  • Pick

• 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.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Life
  • Love
  • Happy

• I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • School
  • Myself
  • Always

• What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Real
  • Artist
  • Prestige

• All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • True
  • Future
  • Brain

• The crown must constantly earn citizens' appreciation, respect and trust.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Respect
  • Trust
  • Appreciation

• The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Will
  • Comfort
  • Survive

• I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Make
  • Used
  • Watch

• 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.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Cool

• 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.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • War
  • Death
  • Know

• Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Produce
  • Extraordinary

• 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.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Time
  • Men

• 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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Music
  • Country

• A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Say
  • Everyone
  • Consensus

• To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • English
  • More
  • Manners

• I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer.

  

  Marilyn Hacker
  • Reading
  • Teenager

• The more you know about the world, the more resources you have in terms of things that can inform your character or the circumstances that surround your character.

  

  Joe Morton
  • World
  • Character

• I miss the comedy of the '70s and '80s, like 'Only Fools And Horses' and 'Fawlty Towers,' so I'm glad I'm put in that category.

  

  Brendan O'Carroll
  • Comedy

• I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • Up
  • Experience

• I really like working with talented people to do something for a lot of people around our world.

  

  Alan Mulally
  • People
  • World

• 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.

  

  Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
  • People
  • Term
  • Uncomfortable