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“My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job.”

Giving Persons Character Jobs Give Me Shame Loud Outrageous Uncompromising Mcqueen Mulligans

Author:Carey Mulligan

“People always ask me why I still want to play, but I want to know why no one will give me an opportunity. It's like they put a stamp on me: 'Hall of Fame. You're done. That's it.' It's a goddamn shame.”

People Knows Want Giving Stills Done Play Asks Opportunity Fame Give Me Shame Ask Me Halls Stamps Hall Of Fame

Author:Rickey Henderson

“Give me hunger, pain and want, Shut me out with shame and failure From your doors of gold and fame, Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger! But leave me a little love.”

Want Giving Littles Pain Doors Fame Gold Give Me Shame Hunger Leaving Me Little Love

Book:The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

“In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on.”

Giving Wells Reason Past Night Grows Causes Mistake Middle Give Me Shame Painful Optimistic Encounters Rejoice Woe Middle Of The Night

Book:At Seventy: A Journal

Source: At Seventy: A Journal

“Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame.”

Giving May Eye Spirit Enemy Sun Clear Doubt Strength Give Me Shame Defeat Setting Settings Fades Give Me Strength Cherokee Clear Eyes

Author:P. C. Cast

“It gives me some kind of chance to survive the night." "How are those better odds? If you come back with me, you're guaranteed to survive the night." "No," Reacher said. "If I come back with you, I'm guaranteed to die of shame.”

Ifs Giving Kind Said Night Dies Chance Give Me Shame Odds

Book:The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 2, 6-Book Bundle: 61 Hours, Worth Dying For, The Affair, A Wanted Man, Never Go Back, Personal

Source: The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 2, 6-Book Bundle: 61 Hours, Worth Dying For, The Affair, A Wanted Man, Never Go Back, Personal