Michael Cerveris Quotes
My father is a university professor so when the schools needed a little kid for their productions I was often the kid they used. The first time I was ever on stage was about 2nd grade.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
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Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
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Coaching the Bruins is like going bear hunting with a butter knife.
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The thing about animals is that they don't judge you. They accept you the way you are.
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As a person who performs on stage, it's good to be emotionally open. If you mess with someone when they are in that state, it's like you're messing with an animal when it's eating.
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I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.
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One of the things that may appeal to teenagers is that vampires never change - they're frozen in that age.
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There is less in this than meets the eye.
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I feel like J. K. Rowling's world is one that is owned by everyone in some ways. People have grown up with it and have such a sense of that universe that there's something kind of wonderful seeing everyone get involved.
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Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it head on, because there is nothing that feels as accomplished as overcoming a fear, and something that has blocked you in such a big way.
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I live in the moment. I can turn the page and move on.
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It was sort of a solution to financial problems when I was a little kid. I just kept doing it because it's fun to be on movie sets.
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I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
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Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.
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I think that Van Gogh is really the ultimate crazy artist that we all think of.
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When I was in school, I got there on the first day and everyone had long, blonde, straight hair, and I had short, dark, curly hair. I immediately felt I didn't fit in and started growing my hair. But I've learned that I'm only happy when I am truly me and feel comfortable and confident in myself.
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The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
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I'm always reading several books at the same time, depending on how deeply engrossed in it I am, if it's fiction and if it captures me.
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What does it mean to have a Republican majority in the House? A lot of people think 'So what?' They should think again.
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My father is a university professor so when the schools needed a little kid for their productions I was often the kid they used. The first time I was ever on stage was about 2nd grade.
