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Michael Emerson Quotes

One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation.

Michael Emerson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Time Moment Experience Present Stand

I love the creative outlet of designing, and I love make-up and products and feel like I find so many great products around the world that I want to recreate, so I want to do that or design.

Love Great Creative World Design

No other athlete in any sport has ever had to go through what I have to.

Go Athlete Through Other Ever Any

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Good Time Strong Think Look Try

I worry a lot about what people think. I worry people think I'm not helping them enough, that they don't like my music, that I'm playing a song too fast or talking too fast. I worry my wife isn't happy with our relationship... I'm afraid somebody's going to take my career away from me. That it's going to go away, or I'm going to get fired.

Music Relationship Wife Happy People

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

Future Ignorance Compassion Past

A reputation is really hard to live down.

Live Reputation Down Hard Really

But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.

Think Sophisticated I Think Cinematic

As a digital technology writer, I have had more than one former student and colleague tell me about digital switchers they have serviced through which calls and data are diverted to government servers or the big data algorithms they've written to be used on our e-mails by intelligence agencies.

Douglas Rushkoff

Technology Intelligence Government Me

The songs I write are about searching, and they're ambiguous - always to be understood in different ways.

Write Searching Always Different

When I got out of Yale Drama School, I was completely broke.

Courtney B. Vance

School Drama Out Got Broke Yale

In the Iraq war, for instance, so much of the information is digitized and can easily be wiped out. That will make it very hard to write accurate histories. Also, there's a much greater opportunity for suppression of information before it can even be archived.

Opportunity War Information Will Out

Growing up as a kid, in elementary and middle school, I was always getting in trouble. Always getting suspended. I got suspended for 90 days for fighting beginning my freshman year, so I missed Homecoming, and that's when I turned the page. I went on honor roll and had good grades after that. It was the changing point.

Good Beginning School Growing Up

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