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Michael Shanks Quotes

I think the writing on the wall is definitely there this year that this is probably our last year.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: canadian
Birth: December 15, 1970

Topics

Writing Think Year Wall Last Our

Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's what inspires you.

Yourself You Kind Write Little Give

The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady's-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell. On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.

Plants Birds Landscape You Look

I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was first on television 25 years ago, and it has recently been brought back. I play the part of a businessman called David Wheeler.

Famous Back Television Play Three

I once worked at a record label called London Records. The company was owned by Roger Ames, one of the most successful figures in the British music industry. Roger always placed a value on loafing, on holidays, on not being in the office all the time.

Music Time Value Holidays London

With pencil, you can always erase.

You Always Pencil Erase

You have to have the brain to conceptualize technique and apply it to your body.

Mikaela Shiffrin

Brain You Body Your Body Your Apply

My mom works at an accounting firm; my dad's a math teacher.

Teacher Mom Accounting Math Firm

Oprah was not somebody who was telling us what to do, she wasn't really teaching us like so many people we see today. With Oprah, she was learning and we were learning with her. And I think that's really was the seed that was planted for all of us to just hang in there with her.

Learning Today People Seed Think

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Free Person Take Error Away Give

I would describe my songs as just a collection of my thoughts, with melodies that probably occurred to me in the grocery store or cycling home, sung as best I can over a bunch of chords.

Home Best Me Thoughts I Can Over

I've always been a slave to my heart.

Willie Stargell

Heart Always Slave Been

I'm actually going to the gym, working on getting not fatter, just a bit bulkier.

Gym Going Working Just Actually Bit

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