Michael Emerson Quotes

I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with.

Michael Emerson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 7, 1954

Topics

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Most of us manage the fateful things that happen in our lives the best we can, certainly not to a Stalin-like 20-year plan.

Jo Brand

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I love all these things where proportions have been changed and altered.

Jeremy Scott

LoveThingsWhereBeenChanged

When I ask people what they think of when they hear the term 'cerebral palsy,' I usually get one of two responses. They either think of a smiling, crumpled child in a wheelchair on a poster or commercials on late night TV with lawyers enticing parents of CP kids to sue the pants off their obstetrician.

Maysoon Zayid

ChildParentsPeopleNightThink

Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

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In Germany it is good if as many people as possible join initiatives and peaceful demonstrations against the rule of the financial markets. Worshipping the unfettered freedom of global markets has brought the world to the brink of ruin. We now need social and ecological rules for the market economy.

Sigmar Gabriel

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I have done so many stupid commercials and terrible other little projects that never went anywhere and just ended up being terrible.

Rob Huebel

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Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.

Rod Serling

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Some people go to Berlin to get more cutting edge; I went and started wearing lederhosen and going to visit baroque palaces.

Rufus Wainwright

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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Hip-hop has done more for race relations than most cultural icons; and I say save Martin Luther King, because his 'I Have A Dream' speech was realized when Obama was elected into office.

Jay-Z

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I've gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you're not getting away with it, it's taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others.

Jon Hamm

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There's a scripture that says, 'A merry heart doeth good like medicine.' I think that's true, too.

Dolly Parton

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