J. Michael Straczynski Quotes
Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an almost cellular, subliminal level - of the rules about what you can and can't do.
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Whether I do an original film, a dance, or a remake of my dad's hit songs, I have always been compared to him.
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I always watch the work I do.
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My fiance likes drawing on napkins, which I save. I'm always scared I'll get caught taking a linen napkin from a restaurant!
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I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.
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I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.
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In my career, I'm always trying to do something different.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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I believe politicians should always remain realistic.
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Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.
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Sometimes you've got to know when it's time to leave the party.
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There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.
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Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.
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Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.
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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
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It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.
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As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and history.
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I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations.
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My first thought is always of light.
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You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.
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It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.
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Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.
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Poetry is music though, unfortunately, not all music is poetry. Because music has other carriers to take its message - beats, lyrics, singers, bass players - anyone in music can rise to make a major statement but in poetry there are only words to do the work. And they do sometimes have to sweat.
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I adore recipes that make use of one cut of meat or a whole animal to create a complex dish, loaded with flavour.
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Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an almost cellular, subliminal level - of the rules about what you can and can't do.
