Michael Emerson Quotes
There's always that sense of because we're so racially defined, if you're trying to cross the boundaries you don't fit into any particular space.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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When I get down to Louisiana, I get to have a taste of some of that great food.
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.
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I have come here only to share the voices and dreams of our children - because they are all our children.
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Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.
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Growing up in Seattle, I had the opportunity to take classes since I was 7 years old. I did theatre. I auditioned for film, television, commercials, and built up not just a resume but also some confidence. I learned how to master my craft before arriving in Los Angeles.
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I think we are realizing that we are going to have to have an international rule of law.
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My father was a military attache, so I've been traveling all my life.
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I noticed in the past, a lot of guys who like strong women, they really freak out if you're not strong 24/7. Or they complain about you being strong, then the moment you're not strong, they're like, 'Oh, no, no, no.'
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Tennessee Williams is an incredible writer for women because, in many ways, his women characters are him. He writes so passionately.
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You can't just look at someone and guess their sexuality. There's no point in assuming that every gay man has just one personality type.
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In the old days, when you took out a mortgage, it was probably through a local bank or a credit union, and whoever gave you your loan held on to it for life. If you lost your job or got too sick to work and suddenly had trouble making your payments, you could call a human being and work things out.
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I need boundaries. In the modern studio there are a bunch of instruments around me, and I can simulate anything I can't play, so sometimes the palette feels too big.
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The body of a human being is a temple of God. But this temple has to be enlightened and has to be auspicious. You have to clear and clean your being completely so it's a beautiful temple for God to reside.
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I own a home in Sweden, I rent in both Los Angeles and in Britain, and I'm constantly travelling.
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Here is this mass of jelly - three pound mass of jelly - that you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space, it can contemplate the meaning of infinity, and it can contemplate itself contemplating the meaning of infinity.
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I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.
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My grandmother is a huge part of my life. She's just a great woman: a woman of the church.
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There's always that sense of because we're so racially defined, if you're trying to cross the boundaries you don't fit into any particular space.
