Michael Emerson Quotes
I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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I am not the kind of director who sits in a chair smoking a cigar talking with a microphone to 10 assistants. I need to move. To touch. To put a painting on a wall. To arrange a set.
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Life is God's art.
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I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
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Conversations about money certainly are not sexy, but they should give each of you some clarity and enable you to enter into your marriage with a better understanding of each other and what is important. Work and home responsibilities, joint or separate accounts, budgets, etc. are all subjects which should be discussed.
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Each year I host a leadership summit in my district, and my biggest advice to young people is get experience. Get your foot in the door.
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I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.
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I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.
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Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.
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Sometimes I'll post goofy photos of myself on Instagram without make-up or making silly faces. I don't always look like a little Barbie doll.
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We're moved by emotions and characters and stories. We love that.
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It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.
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A lot of the films I do go down brilliantly critically and win awards, but not a lot of people see them.
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I think it doesn't matter if you are the best surfer in the world. I'm going to try to be the best surfer I can be. It's not all about competing and being the best. It's more about having fun and just doing what you love.
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Spotting a rare bird is never worth the bite of a cur. Once bitten by a German shepherd, I knew that I preferred cats, even if they are bird-killers. Life is long enough for more than one chance at a rare bird.
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I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic.
