Michael Shannon Quotes

There are certain ways of being that people don't find acceptable or very pleasant in regular life, but you go out on stage and do pretty much the same thing and they find it spellbinding.

Michael Shannon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 7, 1974

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In the ongoing celebration that is literature, we are asked to imagine ourselves as other selves, for better or worse.

Joanna Scott

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At my high school, it was the first time they had TV monitors up, and before class would start, they would have CMT and the music videos playing.

Steve Kazee

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Folks, it's okay to find flamboyant homosexuality funny.

Steven Crowder

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USC has been really involved with trying to recruit me, from my experience going out there.

Tua Tagovailoa

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The problem that faces our country today, the last 30 years we have lived off the future, and the bill is coming due. So there cannot be anything that is not put on the table. There will not be one American that will not be called to sacrifice. Those that are more well-to-do will be called to sacrifice to a greater extent.

Tom Coburn

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Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

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Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Miguel de Cervantes

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My genre is the pop ballad with a touch of R&B.

Luis Fonsi

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Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.

Susie Orbach

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Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

Richard Dooling

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Domestic realism has dominated the American marketplace for decades now. It leeches into literary fiction, and I don't think it's that rich a vein.

Lydia Millet

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True adulthood occurs the moment we grasp that the people who raised us do not exist solely for our comfort and reassurance. From that point on, the steady stream of unconditional love and support we've expected from them all our lives has to flow both ways.

Lynn Coady

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