J. Michael Straczynski Quotes
I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
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I don't think I could think of a single thing that's more isolating than being famous.
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I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.
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What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you.
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Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
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I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.
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I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.
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I think that tennis has been in a place for many years without any change. Davis Cup and Fed Cup has always been a very exciting platform for players because it is such an individual sport, and we get to play a team competition. We love being part of a team.
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I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.
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I always have plans to return to the stage. I leave myself very open. I think what would be more likely is if I did a limited run of something, whether it be a play or a musical.
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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
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People don't know how heavily involved I am in my own career. I'm on 15 to 25 conference calls every few days strategizing with my team. I think a lot of artists sit back and have it done for them. Sometimes as women in the industry - if you're sexy or like doing sexy things - some people subconsciously negate your brain. They think you're stupid.
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If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily.
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Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.
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It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
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I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.
