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• My mother always told me growing up I had a punchable face. Little did I know she was predicting my television career.

  Michael Emerson

  Mother, Growing Up, Careers

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• Creo que la gente responde a los villanos porque la gente en general es más villana que heroica.

  Michael Emerson

  Thinking, People, Heroic

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• En tu corazon de actor, sabes cuando estas actuando bien. Puede que los demás no siempre estén de acuerdo contigo, pero yo siempre soy consciente de cuándo la escena se está cocinando o no. Tienes instinto para ello tras años de hacer escenas y obras de teatro, y creo que eso te ayuda incluso en el mundo de la televisión.

  Michael Emerson

  Heart, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• That's a big fear, right, and when I talk with black pastors, the same thing: If we try to have this move towards interracial congregations, whites will just dominate then. There are so many more of them, and they're used to being in the position of power. So they'll just take over, and we'll lose the one thing we do have.

  Michael Emerson

  Moving, Position Of Power, Black

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Puede que incluso haya enfado. Pero si lo consiguen, llegan a un nuevo acuerdo y empiezan a crear una nueva cultura, y se convierte en algo que la gente simplemente... muchas veces dirán: "No podría vivir sin ello. Simplemente tengo que estar allí".

  Michael Emerson

  Agreement, Creating, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• To a large extent, people's interest in the character is the mystery of the character.

  Michael Emerson

  Character, People, Mystery

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• Now they had to sit in separate places and sometimes they'd even have to sit outside and look through the windows. But they did worship together.

  Michael Emerson

  Together, Looks, Worship

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Estilo de llamada y respuesta, sí, exactamente. Así que siempre que se reúnen diferentes grupos tiene que haber un largo periodo de negociación. ¿Cómo vamos a rendir culto? ¿Qué es aceptable? ¿Qué no lo es? ¿Si quiero decir "Amén" puedo?

  Michael Emerson

  Long, Style, Together

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Así que este es el tipo de cosas que ahora, cuando la gente está tratando de avanzar hacia congregaciones multirraciales, están enfatizando. Hablan de estas escrituras que dicen que debemos unirnos, y que en Pentecostés, cuando se dice que el Espíritu Santo vino sobre los primeros cristianos, se les dio la capacidad de hablar en diferentes idiomas, y así, sin importar quiénes eran las personas, todos podían adorar juntos.

  Michael Emerson

  Christian, Stress, Moving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I really do think that every time you play a role well, you are in danger of being identified with that role until the next big thing comes along.

  Michael Emerson

  Thinking, Play, Roles

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• And again, this connection that you get: I meet Joe at church. Joe's connected to a whole network of people I don't know. Joe likes me. He invites me over to his son's birthday party, and I meet his whole family. I meet his friends. I get to know his neighborhood. That happens all the time.

  Michael Emerson

  Party, Son, People

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• Preaching styles and people being slain in the spirit and things like that. Now it doesn't happen in all black churches, and it happens sometimes in white churches, right? But on average they're quite a bit different.

  Michael Emerson

  Average, White, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We've done a lot of studies to see when they do happen, why, and I mean there's a variety of reasons. But one, it starts with a commitment where they decide this is going to be who we are. Maybe it's out of their faith, a new way of looking at their faith, that we must be integrated across race.

  Michael Emerson

  Mean, Commitment, Race

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• They could never go back to being a uniracial congregation again. It brings excitement. It brings life. It allows them to be able to know people they would never know, to meet people that are outside the congregation they would have never connected with, you know, through the networks that they developed in the congregation.

  Michael Emerson

  People, Able, Excitement

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• We go where our family goes. We go where our friends are, and because our social networks are so segregated by race, we end up with what we have. We also find that, you know, if you're immigrants, you're not part of that history.

  Michael Emerson

  Race, Social Network, Ends

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• If we go into white congregations, non-whites will sometimes say it felt like worship never started. It was sort of dead and didn't feel that warmly received. But so - and there are different realities either way, and it makes it difficult for all groups to try and cross boundaries.

  Michael Emerson

  Reality, White, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• En parte porque no tenían elección, ¿verdad? Si eras esclavo, hacías lo que decía el amo. Y ellos decían para adorar: "Vas a adorar con nosotros".

  Michael Emerson

  Worship You, Choices, Slave

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• Downsides, yeah, and when there are more downsides when churches first start - they go through stages of transforming to becoming multiracial. So in the beginning stages there's often a lot of pain, a lot of confusion, a lot of people leave.

  Michael Emerson

  Pain, Confusion, People

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• I have to conclude, oh, the best people are all somebody other than my own race. So that's difficult. How do we interpret the Bible? Should we stress things like justice and that God is somebody who cares about equality of all people? Or is he a God of love and a God who's there to give me an afterlife?

  Michael Emerson

  Stress, Afterlife, Race

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• But what we found in the study is that churches are ten times less diverse than the neighborhoods they sit in. So there's something more going on than just reflecting the neighborhood, yeah.

  Michael Emerson

  Church, Study, Yeah

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• 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

  Pensar, Directores, Querer

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 16, 2012.

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• 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

  Two, Meditation, Feelings

  "Actor Michael Emerson". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 16, 2012.

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• I may have to shop with them. But on Sunday I don't want to have to worship with them. I want to be able to just be myself and let my hair down." It's also, of course, as we know, the seat of political organization and the affirming of your blackness and so on.

  Michael Emerson

  Sunday, Hair, Organization

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• It may be changing, but still it's the one place, that total control of an institution, that African Americans have. So sometimes, you know, you'll hear the statement of African Americans saying, "I have to work with whites.

  Michael Emerson

  African American, May, Sometimes

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• Life will be simpler when I don't spend two-thirds of the year in the middle of the Pacific.

  Michael Emerson

  Years, Two, Middle

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