William V. Shannon Quotes
What is actually happening is often less important than what appears to be happening.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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The crew loves working on the show, even though we have to work really hard. There's nobody in the show that's difficult. We really have a great group.
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My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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I am a just man.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.
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When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes.
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That's a real problem when people bring exotics into their homes. Sometimes it's by accident, but sometimes it's on purpose.
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Mr. Obama is particularly well positioned to challenge Hollywood because of his special relationship with the media world's elites. They might be more likely to heed criticism coming from Mr. Obama than from any other president or member of Congress.
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You can't destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America's elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you're doing us a favor.
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That statement was not addressed to the authors of political statements. I said that I deplore attempts to misinform the public and to /trigger/ political intervention. And there were such attempts.
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We know there are a lot of people in the unemployment pool that do not match up in their skill set for what jobs are going to be created, and that's an area we've got to keep pressing on.
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It's enough now of being unhealthy. I have a family, and I owe it to them to be as healthy as I can. A great sense of clarity comes when you have a child. It shows the important stuff to be important.
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What is actually happening is often less important than what appears to be happening.
