Michael Emerson Quotes
To a large extent, people's interest in the character is the mystery of the character.

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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.
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Tech never comes back the same.
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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
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I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.
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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
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A lot of people think that because I'm from Malaysia, I'm driven by Malaysian sound, but actually, it's mostly just my melodies.
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Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?
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I'm a country girl at heart. I think an old-school Western would kind of be really up my alley and would be so fun. I'm so comfortable in that genre and around horses.
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Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
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What Tim does is, he calls me and sends me the script. And then he sends me a drawing, an illustration of his image of me as the character. It's so great.
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A novel can be set in motion by an incident, a character, a location, a mood - by anything at all. Sometimes the stimulus can be an idea, which will rapidly clothe itself in character and incident. 'Foreign Bodies' came about through the contemplation of the contrast between post-second world war America and Europe.
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I own motorized bar stools.
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Have you thanked your body today? Be grateful, stay positive.
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To a large extent, people's interest in the character is the mystery of the character.