"I want to focus on each scene. I'm a real perfectionist, and I don't want to feel like I didn't consider every possible variation of a scene. I come from a theater background, so I'm used to a lot of repetition, and I'm used to really attacking something over and over and over again."

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Source : "True Blood Actress Adina Porter: On Grief, Dedication, and Balance". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Michael Shannon

#Real Quotes #Focus Quotes #Variation Quotes

“Believe the unbelievable. Dream the impossible. Never take 'No' for an answer!”
“[L]eave nothing to the uncertainty of procuring a warlike apparatus at the moment of public danger.”
“You get what you think about, whether you want it or not. Commit to thinking about what you want, rather than how impossible or difficult that dream may seem.”
“In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“We need to sacrifice something. And this is what I find lacking. We want to construct an image of ourselves as virtuous but we don't want to suffer for our beliefs. We want to change the world with a Facebook like. That's not how the world works.”
“In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.”
“There are choices you have to make not just once”

Source : Luis J. Rodriguez (2005). “Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.”, p.132, Simon and Schuster
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

Source : Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.1079, RosettaBooks

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