Michael Emerson Quotes
Humor is so culturally based that when I try to tell a joke as me being a white American, if I tell other white Americans, they'll laugh. If I tell an African American, they might not laugh. In fact, they either might not find it funny, or they might find it offensive, and I didn't mean it to be offensive. So these are the sort of little things that build up over time, just like in a marriage. You know, the little things can build up over time.
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I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.
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When I was a kid, I wanted a Chanel bob and bangs. My mom said no. I went to the salon anyway, and they said, 'No way - we are not going to do that to your hair.' So I did it myself. Big mistake. Instead of my bangs going down straight, they were sticking up like a cat. It was horrible.
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You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.
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I support gay unions. I think the government should get out of the marriage business completely - leave marriages to the churches. And grant civil unions to gay couples, grant civil unions to a man and woman.
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True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
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Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.
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Prospects of normalizing our relations with Russia look good.
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Things happen for a reason, and in their own time.
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State government's efforts to address climate change must include reduced consumption and other conservation measures as water shortages become the new normal.
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I'm a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world.
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I like Adele, Mika, Natacha Atlas and a beautiful old record, 'An Evening with Belafonte/Mouskouri,' starring Harry Belafonte and Nana Mouskouri. What they have in common is they all have incredible voices. I am very much into voices. I would say I'm a fan of voices, not of sound. I'm a fan of singers, not of bands.
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My experience on 'Jarhead' was life changing.
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Grace, like an angel of mercy, makes his voice heard sweet and clear, repeating the story of the cross, the matchless love of Jesus.
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But I couldn't draw as fast as she requested. Thus, I tried to create the worst abomination of a comic that I could, so as to make her not want comics anymore. That abomination, my friends, was Happy Noodle Boy.
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Sometimes it's fun to be the guy who doesn't know that he's bad, like the character I played in 'True Blood'.
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Without social networks, you're not the coolest thing on the Christmas list, and you're not getting any bite.
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I believe in myself. There's nothing wrong with believing in myself. That's the whole idea, is that you can always become better.
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A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
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Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
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George Benson's 'This Masquerade' is my favorite version of Leon Russell's blue gem.
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The ability of Texas Republicans to be effective in Congress is based on having at least 218 Republicans in the House.
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Humor is so culturally based that when I try to tell a joke as me being a white American, if I tell other white Americans, they'll laugh. If I tell an African American, they might not laugh. In fact, they either might not find it funny, or they might find it offensive, and I didn't mean it to be offensive. So these are the sort of little things that build up over time, just like in a marriage. You know, the little things can build up over time.
