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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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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I turned down a lot of films.
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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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When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
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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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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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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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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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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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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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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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Your attitude measures up to the two requirements of love. You want to go to bed with her and can't, and you don't know her very well. Ignorance of the other person topped up with deprivation, Jim. You fit the formula all right, and what's more you want to go on fitting it.
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If time and space, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The sun which does not feel decay No greater is than we. So why, Love, should we ever pray To live a century? The butterfly that lives a day Has lived eternity.
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I couldn't trash [Adolf] Hitler enough. Poor bastards, they make all these contributions to the automotive industry, aeronautics, space - but you pick one wrong guy and it's all out the window. They're never gonna live that one down.
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I came to the United States to see what would happen in 2000 after working for 20 years in Australia and asked my agent to look out for the nasty roles because I'd become famous for playing the nicest man in Australia. So I wanted to play bad guys.
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You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.
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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.
