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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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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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I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated.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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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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My whole family can talk. They are all car salesmen. They are all funny.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.
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If I see something that inspires me, I'll dress like it.
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If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.
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I was writing and I have three kids. I was occupying my time with them but it was difficult.
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The great thing about being a standard-issue, straight white person is you have so much time. Gay people, people of color, we have less time! We have to be a living Learning Annex to everybody. We don't have time to master hobbies like skipping rocks along lakes.
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I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.
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I don't get sick much because in the U.S. I always eat with my fingers, you know, to get used to the bacteria.
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You cannot seek for the ideal outside the realm of reality.
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I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic.
