Michael Emerson Quotes
In your actor's heart, you know when you're playing well. Others may not always agree with you, but I'm always aware of when the scene is cooking or not. You have an instinct about that from years of doing scenes and plays, and I think it stands you in good stead even in the TV world.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.
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Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.
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Starting with 'Forever, Interrupted,' I somehow convinced myself that in order to create content, I had to consume content. What this means is that I have legitimized binge-watching television and told myself that I must do it for work.
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
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What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
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We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.
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Bathrooms are, on a square foot basis, the most expensive room in the house to renovate. If you want to test your heart's fitness, try shopping for simple bathroom faucets. Add in the cost of the required valves, mixers and trims, and you may need reviving when you see the tally!
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Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.
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I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.
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This damned ranting about doom. Is that food for the minds of modern people? Do they really expect us to take them seriously?
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The blind old man of Scio's rocky isle.
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He lay in the dark thinking of all the things he did not know about his father and he realised that the father he knew was all the father he would ever know.
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I think Africans are very much like white people back home, in that they think they are the center of the universe and that everything that is done is done for them.
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On telly, there's been a move towards entertainment - with some very high-powered, fast-moving dramas. Then we have the Internet, where we get our information but it's all in bite-size pieces. I think the documentary, as a form, actually speaks to what's missing.
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Failure can teach you something, and as long as you're moving very, very quickly, you're going to start piling up the wins. Speed gives you the luxury to be able to fail.
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Chloe is really just like an exaggerated aspect of myself.
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The modern era has brought up immense conveniences but at what price. The human heart is desperate for something more than a quicker serving of popcorn.
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Place honey on the altars and die, You lovers that are bitter at heart.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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In your actor's heart, you know when you're playing well. Others may not always agree with you, but I'm always aware of when the scene is cooking or not. You have an instinct about that from years of doing scenes and plays, and I think it stands you in good stead even in the TV world.
