Michael Emerson Quotes
Every pastor I talk to says, and particularly if they're African American they'll say, "I'm not black enough for African Americans. I'm not white enough for the whites. I'm not Hispanic enough."
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I'm a fan of all these genres of music, everything from Mumford & Sons to Beach Boys to doo-wop music to reggae.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
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I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!
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Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.
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Violence is a big problem. Too many children are dying. Too many children. We must do something.
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I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
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Many people in Hungary acted shamefully during World War II.
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The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.
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All pitchers are liars or crybabies.
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Matt Braunger really makes me laugh; I like that guy a lot.
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Well, you can't improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane.
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I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.
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I actually love going to a lot of theater movies. I just love watching actors work and seeing how people tell stories.
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Throughout my career, even as a very young actor, people have always said to me that they would like to see my Othello. They could see something of him in me, I suppose.
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Desirelessness towards the seen and the unseen gives the consciousness of mastery.
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A lot of people are afraid of the idea of enslavement, and that's because it's tied to so much shame and guilt... That is the big elephant in the room, but a part of why we're afraid to attack that subject matter is because of the way we've been taught about it.
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The arts are beyond price; they're beyond value. They're of incalculable worth in what it means to be a human being.
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I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.
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There are structural problems within the industry that are preventing us from displaying aspirational black roles.
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We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me. I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up.
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Every pastor I talk to says, and particularly if they're African American they'll say, "I'm not black enough for African Americans. I'm not white enough for the whites. I'm not Hispanic enough."
