Michael Emerson Quotes
I've been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.
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When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.
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A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
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If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.
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I shot 'Girl' about three weeks after I finished 'The Magnificent Seven.'
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
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I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
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A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
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I'm obsessed with Marcus Mumford. I've got to know him recently; he's amazing.
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Now we're here in 2009. My boys are 16 and 18, one's going to USC film school, and the other seems to be a natural comedian. So now I have to go back into show business as a senior comedian. So I hope to get Walter Brennan-type roles, Gabby Hayes kind of stuff, be the old-timer. We'll see what happens.
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We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
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I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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In 1987 I got dartitis, a psychological condition which means you can't let your darts go properly. For a time, I wondered what the hell I was going to do if I didn't recover. But I remained positive and, thankfully, got over it. It occurred during the Swedish Open when I found I couldn't let the darts go.
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All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.
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I'm just blessed because I'm Mexican. Mexican Americans have amazing hair!
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I've been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.
