Paul Emsley Quotes
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I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.
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The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.
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With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
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Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
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Modeling has always played off my D.J.-ing, but it is a fun supplement.
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.
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To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.
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I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.
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I tell people that we must have the courage to share what we feel, but no one follows me.
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
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There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided that kids could relate more to someone their own age than an adult. So suddenly all these previously grownup comics were lousy with sidekicks: Aquagirl, Aqualad, Robin, Kid Flash, Speedy, Stripesy... the list goes on.
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When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.
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I think you can have a ridiculously enormous and complex data set, but if you have the right tools and methodology then it's not a problem.
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Every time there's an election, people start to criticize China.
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As a solo performer, it's total involvement. What I do is to break down the wall between audience and performer.
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God never said He'd eliminate all of the chaos from our lives; He just said He'd bring meaning to it.
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I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.
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I like to work with artists from around the world. There are so many new inspiring filmmakers. I had the privilege recently to work with Ethiopian filmmaker Zeresenay Mehari and his wife on the film Difret. They are that unique balance of very thoughtful conscious filmmakers who are also brilliant, original artists.
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Whitney Houston is my idol and my mentor and my dream forever, like she will always be my favorite artist, ever, on the planet. Like I don't think I'll ever feel that way about another artist.
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What does it mean to be an American today? The question of that is always pointing at now. It allows someone to say what lens that will be through. A lot of my work has been about identity in different ways. Part of that for me falls into the question of gender identity certainly but also about what it means to be an American theater artist.
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As an artist, you do understand you're never going to please everybody.
